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Satellite · NORAD 11850 · COSPAR 1980-052A

OPS 3123

DecayedPayloadLEOUnknown derived

Altitude now

—

object decayed

Velocity

—

Inclination

96.29°

Period

88.2 min

88.2 min

Perigee

160km

Apogee

212km

orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file — decayed 06 Mar 1981.· Metadata updated 19 h ago

Live position

Live position

Live position unavailable — this object re-entered the atmosphere on 06 Mar 1981 and is no longer tracked.

Mission

Mission & classification

Mission type derived
Unknown
Object type
Payload
SATCAT ops status
Decayed [D]
Radar cross-section
47.5 m²

CelesTrak groups

Not listed in any CelesTrak group.

Aliases

  • OPS 3123Celestrak Satcat

Ownership

Operator & country

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

Launch

Launch

Launch page →
Launch date
18 Jun 1980
COSPAR launch id
1980-052
Launch site
Vandenberg Space Force Base (Western Range), California

Objects from the same launch · 2

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
11850
COSPAR / international designator
1980-052A
SatelliteIndex id
sat_01M28X3JMXX1Y6QM1HEA2TF6NC
Canonical slug
ops-3123-11850

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