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Rocket body · NORAD 25988 · COSPAR 1999-065J

PEGASUS R/B(2)

DecayedRocket bodyLEORocket body derived

Altitude now

—

object decayed

Velocity

—

Inclination

40.94°

Period

88.2 min

88.2 min

Perigee

171km

Apogee

198km

orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file — decayed 01 Feb 2002.· Metadata updated 16 h ago

Live position

Live position

Live position unavailable — this object re-entered the atmosphere on 01 Feb 2002 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
1.0 m²

CelesTrak groups

Not listed in any CelesTrak group.

Aliases

  • PEGASUS R/B(2)Celestrak Satcat

Ownership

Operator & country

Operator
—
SATCAT owner code
US · United States
Country
United States US

Launch

Launch

Launch page →
Launch date
04 Dec 1999
COSPAR launch id
1999-065
Launch site
Eastern Range Airspace (air launch)

Objects from the same launch · 17

All objects from launch 1999-065 →

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

UN Register of Objects Launched into Outer Space (UNOOSA) — connector planned, not yet ingested; registration unavailable

Transparency

Sources & provenance

All sources →

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

All 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
25988
COSPAR / international designator
1999-065J
SatelliteIndex id
sat_01M28X3JQB92CNK8DB33HQ8428
Canonical slug
pegasus-r-b-2-25988

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.