Satellite · NORAD 7242 · COSPAR 1974-020A
OPS 6245
- Operator United States
- Constellation —
- Country United States
Altitude now
—
object decayed
Velocity
—
Inclination
94.40°
Period
88.5 min
88.5 min
Perigee
148km
Apogee
247km
orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file — decayed 28 Jul 1974.· Metadata updated 17 h ago
Live position
Live position
Live position unavailable — this object re-entered the atmosphere on 28 Jul 1974 and is no longer tracked.
Mission
Mission & classification
- Mission type derived
- Unknown
- Object type
- Payload
- SATCAT ops status
- Decayed [D]
- Radar cross-section
- —
CelesTrak groups
Not listed in any CelesTrak group.
Aliases
- OPS 6245Celestrak Satcat
Ownership
Operator & country
- Operator
- —
- SATCAT owner code
- US · United States
- Country
- United States US
Launch
Launch
- Launch date
- 10 Apr 1974
- COSPAR launch id
- 1974-020
Objects from the same launch · 3
- OPS 45477244PayloadUnknown
- OPS 69357247PayloadDecayed
- TITAN 3D R/B7243Rocket 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
- 7242
- COSPAR / international designator
- 1974-020A
- SatelliteIndex id
- sat_01M28X3JKHTEGKNM7BJD9B6NJY
- Canonical slug
- ops-6245-7242
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.