Satellite · NORAD 3954 · COSPAR 1969-046D
OPS 6909 (VELA 9)
- Operator United States
- Constellation —
- Country United States
Altitude now
—
no element set
Velocity
—
Inclination
89.09°
Period
4.7 d
6,698.0 min
Perigee
24,401km
Apogee
198,251km
orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file.· Metadata updated 17 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
- Unknown
- Object type
- Payload
- Radar cross-section
- 0.8 m²
CelesTrak groups
Not listed in any CelesTrak group.
Aliases
- OPS 6909 (VELA 9)Celestrak Satcat
Ownership
Operator & country
- Operator
- —
- SATCAT owner code
- US · United States
- Country
- United States US
Launch
Launch
- Launch date
- 23 May 1969
- COSPAR launch id
- 1969-046
Objects from the same launch · 6
- VELA 9/10 INTERSTAGE60001DebrisInactive
- ERS 29 (OV5-5)3950PayloadUnknown
- ERS 26 (OV5-6)3951PayloadUnknown
- OV5-93952PayloadUnknown
- OPS 6911 (VELA 10)3955PayloadUnknown
- TITAN 3C TRANSTAGE R/B3956Rocket bodyInactive
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
- 3954
- COSPAR / international designator
- 1969-046D
- SatelliteIndex id
- sat_01M28X3JJYDTERSCSD23Z2A7N5
- Canonical slug
- ops-6909-vela-9-3954
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.