Satellite · NORAD 21989 · COSPAR 1992-032A
NSS-101 (INTELSAT 101)
- Operator SES
- Constellation SES GEO fleet
- Country Netherlands
Altitude now
—
no element set
Velocity
—
Inclination
15.04°
Period
1.0 d
1,481.8 min
Perigee
36,343km
Apogee
37,009km
orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file.· Metadata updated 9 h 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
- Communications
- Object type
- Payload
- SATCAT ops status
- Non-operational [-]
- Radar cross-section
- 5.8 m²
- Constellation membership derived
- SES GEO fleet via name_pattern
CelesTrak groups
Not listed in any CelesTrak group.
Aliases
- NSS-101 (INTELSAT 101)Celestrak Satcat
Ownership
Operator & country
- Operator
- SES
- SATCAT owner code
- NETH · Netherlands
- Country
- Netherlands NL
Launch
Launch
- Launch date
- 10 Jun 1992
- COSPAR launch id
- 1992-032
Objects from the same launch · 1
- ATLAS 2A CENTAUR R/B21990Rocket bodyDecayed
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
Transparency
Sources & provenance
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
No events detected for this object yet. Launches, decays and orbit changes are generated by the derived-analytics connector.
Reference
Identifiers
- NORAD catalogue number
- 21989
- COSPAR / international designator
- 1992-032A
- SatelliteIndex id
- sat_01M28X3JPPGDWGZYXWCDCKVJRD
- Canonical slug
- nss-101-intelsat-101-21989
Orbit class, mission type and constellation membership are derived by SatelliteIndex (Communications) — see the methodology. Positions are propagated estimates, not tracking measurements; never use them for conjunction assessment.