Satellite · NORAD 6217 · COSPAR 1972-076B
OPS 8180 (STP RADSAT)
- Operator United States
- Constellation —
- Country United States
Altitude now
—
no element set
Velocity
—
Inclination
98.66°
Period
97.9 min
97.9 min
Perigee
650km
Apogee
665km
orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file.· Metadata updated 15 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
- 1.4 m²
CelesTrak groups
Not listed in any CelesTrak group.
Aliases
- OPS 8180 (STP RADSAT)Celestrak Satcat
Ownership
Operator & country
- Operator
- —
- SATCAT owner code
- US · United States
- Country
- United States US
Launch
Launch
- Launch date
- 02 Oct 1972
- COSPAR launch id
- 1972-076
Objects from the same launch · 4
- ATLAS F BURNER 2 DEB6221DebrisDecayed
- ATLAS F BURNER 2 DEB6224DebrisDecayed
- OPS 8180 (RADCAT)6212PayloadDecayed
- ATLAS F BURNER 2 R/B6218Rocket 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
- 6217
- COSPAR / international designator
- 1972-076B
- SatelliteIndex id
- sat_01M28X3JKCHWZSMKS978TWAP1V
- Canonical slug
- ops-8180-stp-radsat-6217
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.