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Satellite · NORAD 45017 · COSPAR 2020-003B

NUSAT-7 (SOPHIE)

DecayedPayloadLEOEarth observation derived

Altitude now

—

object decayed

Velocity

—

Inclination

97.12°

Period

87.3 min

87.3 min

Perigee

131km

Apogee

147km

orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file — decayed 12 Jan 2024.· Metadata updated 8 h ago

Live position

Live position

Live position unavailable — this object re-entered the atmosphere on 12 Jan 2024 and is no longer tracked.

Mission

Mission & classification

Mission type derived
Earth observation
Object type
Payload
SATCAT ops status
Decayed [D]
Radar cross-section
—
Constellation membership derived
Satellogic NewSat (Ñusat) via name_pattern

CelesTrak groups

Not listed in any CelesTrak group.

Aliases

  • NUSAT-7 (SOPHIE)Celestrak Satcat

Ownership

Operator & country

Operator
Satellogic
SATCAT owner code
ARGN · Argentina
Country
Argentina AR

Launch

Launch

Launch page →
Launch date
15 Jan 2020
COSPAR launch id
2020-003
Launch site
Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center

Objects from the same launch · 7

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
45017
COSPAR / international designator
2020-003B
SatelliteIndex id
sat_01M28X3JV862TDQ34CC5D12V7R
Canonical slug
nusat-7-sophie-45017

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