Satellite · NORAD 1273 · COSPAR 1965-021A
OPS 7353
- Operator United States
- Constellation —
- Country United States
Altitude now
—
object decayed
Velocity
—
Inclination
98.97°
Period
87.4 min
87.4 min
Perigee
143km
Apogee
149km
orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file — decayed 31 Dec 1989.· Metadata updated 7 d ago
Live position
Live position
Live position unavailable — this object re-entered the atmosphere on 31 Dec 1989 and is no longer tracked.
Mission
Mission & classification
- Mission type derived
- Unknown
- Object type
- Payload
- SATCAT ops status
- Decayed [D]
- Radar cross-section
- 0.8 m²
CelesTrak groups
Not listed in any CelesTrak group.
Aliases
- OPS 7353Celestrak Satcat
Ownership
Operator & country
- Operator
- —
- SATCAT owner code
- US · United States
- Country
- United States US
Launch
Launch
- Launch date
- 18 Mar 1965
- COSPAR launch id
- 1965-021
Objects from the same launch · 5
- THOR ALTAIR DEB1288DebrisDecayed
- THOR ALTAIR DEB1290DebrisDecayed
- THOR ALTAIR DEB1376DebrisDecayed
- THOR ALTAIR DEB1463DebrisDecayed
- THOR ALTAIR R/B1289Rocket 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
- 1273
- COSPAR / international designator
- 1965-021A
- SatelliteIndex id
- sat_01M28X3JJF85A23QDAAY72GYHM
- Canonical slug
- ops-7353-1273
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.