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Satellite · NORAD 20302 · COSPAR 1989-085A

NAVSTAR 16 (USA 47)

UnknownPayloadMEONavigation derived

Altitude now

—

no element set

Velocity

—

Inclination

53.97°

Period

12.7 h

760.2 min

Perigee

21,187km

Apogee

21,239km

orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file.· Metadata updated 3 d ago

Live position

Live position

Live position unavailable — no public orbital element set exists for this object (it may be classified, untracked or too small to catalogue).

Mission

Mission & classification

Mission type derived
Navigation
Object type
Payload
SATCAT ops status
Non-operational [-]
Radar cross-section
2.0 m²
Constellation membership derived
GPS (NAVSTAR) via name_pattern

CelesTrak groups

Not listed in any CelesTrak group.

Aliases

  • NAVSTAR 16 (USA 47)Celestrak Satcat

Ownership

Operator & country

Operator
United States Space Force
SATCAT owner code
US · United States
Country
United States US

Launch

Launch

Launch page →
Launch date
21 Oct 1989
COSPAR launch id
1989-085
Launch site
Cape Canaveral / Kennedy Space Center (Eastern Range), Florida

Objects from the same launch · 3

Change log

History

No changes recorded since first ingestion on 11 Sept 2026 18:54 UTC. Status, orbit class, name and ownership changes are logged here as sources are re-ingested.

Regulatory

UN registration

UN Register of Objects Launched into Outer Space (UNOOSA) — connector planned, not yet ingested; registration unavailable

Transparency

Sources & provenance

All sources →

No source is linked to this record yet — the catalogue row exists but no provenance entry has been written for it.

Field provenance

No field-level provenance recorded.

Timeline

Events

All events →

No events detected for this object yet. Launches, decays and orbit changes are generated by the derived-analytics connector.

Reference

Identifiers

NORAD catalogue number
20302
COSPAR / international designator
1989-085A
SatelliteIndex id
sat_01M28X3JPCDDFH3TJ6S88RTKH2
Canonical slug
navstar-16-usa-47-20302

Orbit class, mission type and constellation membership are derived by SatelliteIndex (Navigation) — see the methodology. Positions are propagated estimates, not tracking measurements; never use them for conjunction assessment.