Satellite · NORAD 9009 · COSPAR 1976-066A
PALAPA 1
- Operator Indonesia
- Constellation —
- Country Indonesia
Altitude now
—
no element set
Velocity
—
Inclination
7.72°
Period
24.0 h
1,438.4 min
Perigee
35,811km
Apogee
35,853km
orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file.· Metadata updated 10 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
- 5.1 m²
CelesTrak groups
Not listed in any CelesTrak group.
Aliases
- PALAPA 1Celestrak Satcat
Ownership
Operator & country
- Operator
- —
- SATCAT owner code
- INDO · Indonesia
- Country
- Indonesia ID
Launch
Launch
- Launch date
- 08 Jul 1976
- COSPAR launch id
- 1976-066
Objects from the same launch · 3
- DELTA 1 DEB [YO]28144DebrisInactive
- DELTA 1 R/B(1)9012Rocket bodyDecayed
- DELTA 1 R/B(2)9017Rocket 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
- 9009
- COSPAR / international designator
- 1976-066A
- SatelliteIndex id
- sat_01M28X3JMD3CJM2T56QDKNX4H1
- Canonical slug
- palapa-1-9009
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.