Satellite · NORAD 24661 · COSPAR 1996-065B
ORFEUS-SPAS
- Operator Germany
- Constellation —
- Country Germany
Altitude now
—
object decayed
Velocity
—
Inclination
28.47°
Period
91.6 min
91.6 min
Perigee
346km
Apogee
359km
orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file — decayed 07 Dec 1996.· Metadata updated 14 h ago
Live position
Live position
Live position unavailable — this object re-entered the atmosphere on 07 Dec 1996 and is no longer tracked.
Mission
Mission & classification
- Mission type derived
- Unknown
- Object type
- Payload
- SATCAT ops status
- Decayed [D]
- Radar cross-section
- 8.7 m²
CelesTrak groups
Not listed in any CelesTrak group.
Aliases
- ORFEUS-SPASCelestrak Satcat
Ownership
Operator & country
- Operator
- —
- SATCAT owner code
- GER · Germany
- Country
- Germany DE
Launch
Launch
- Launch date
- 19 Nov 1996
- COSPAR launch id
- 1996-065
Objects from the same launch · 2
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
- 24661
- COSPAR / international designator
- 1996-065B
- SatelliteIndex id
- sat_01M28X3JQ4HG4ZXGXM2K47RASC
- Canonical slug
- orfeus-spas-24661
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.