Satellite · NORAD 4366 · COSPAR 1970-027A
OPS 7044 (VELA 12)
- Operator United States
- Constellation —
- Country United States
Altitude now
—
no element set
Velocity
—
Inclination
81.23°
Period
4.7 d
6,711.8 min
Perigee
12,296km
Apogee
210,679km
orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file.· Metadata updated 16 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
- 0.0 m²
CelesTrak groups
Not listed in any CelesTrak group.
Aliases
- OPS 7044 (VELA 12)Celestrak Satcat
Ownership
Operator & country
- Operator
- —
- SATCAT owner code
- US · United States
- Country
- United States US
Launch
Launch
- Launch date
- 08 Apr 1970
- COSPAR launch id
- 1970-027
Objects from the same launch · 3
- VELA 11/12 INTERSTAGE60002DebrisInactive
- OPS 7033 (VELA 11)4368PayloadUnknown
- TITAN 3C TRANSTAGE R/B50000Rocket 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
- 4366
- COSPAR / international designator
- 1970-027A
- SatelliteIndex id
- sat_01M28X3JK1151VSFGQ1443J35G
- Canonical slug
- ops-7044-vela-12-4366
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.