Rocket body · NORAD 25483 · COSPAR 1998-053J
PEGASUS R/B(1)
- Operator United States
- Constellation —
- Country United States
Altitude now
—
object decayed
Velocity
—
Inclination
44.95°
Period
87.6 min
87.6 min
Perigee
146km
Apogee
161km
orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file — decayed 08 Nov 1998.· Metadata updated 9 h ago
Live position
Live position
Live position unavailable — this object re-entered the atmosphere on 08 Nov 1998 and is no longer tracked.
Mission
Mission & classification
- Mission type derived
- Rocket body
- Object type
- Rocket body
- SATCAT ops status
- Decayed [D]
- Radar cross-section
- 0.9 m²
CelesTrak groups
Not listed in any CelesTrak group.
Aliases
- PEGASUS R/B(1)Celestrak Satcat
Ownership
Operator & country
- Operator
- —
- SATCAT owner code
- US · United States
- Country
- United States US
Launch
Launch
- Launch date
- 23 Sept 1998
- COSPAR launch id
- 1998-053
- Launch site
- Eastern Range Airspace (air launch)
Objects from the same launch · 9
- ORBCOMM FM2125475PayloadUnknown
- ORBCOMM FM2225476PayloadUnknown
- ORBCOMM FM2325477PayloadUnknown
- ORBCOMM FM2425478PayloadUnknown
- ORBCOMM FM2525479PayloadUnknown
- ORBCOMM FM2625480PayloadUnknown
- ORBCOMM FM2725481PayloadActive
- ORBCOMM FM2825482PayloadUnknown
- PEGASUS R/B(2)25484Rocket 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
- 25483
- COSPAR / international designator
- 1998-053J
- SatelliteIndex id
- sat_01M28X3JQ95R9Y8N3H7XFHPTDP
- Canonical slug
- pegasus-r-b-1-25483
Orbit class, mission type and constellation membership are derived by SatelliteIndex (Rocket body) — see the methodology. Positions are propagated estimates, not tracking measurements; never use them for conjunction assessment.