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Satellite · NORAD 26609 · COSPAR 2000-072B

PHASE 3D (AO-40)

UnknownPayloadHEOUnknown derived
  • Operator Germany
  • Constellation —
  • Country Germany

Altitude now

—

no element set

Velocity

—

Inclination

9.33°

Period

19.1 h

1,146.6 min

Perigee

1,103km

Apogee

58,717km

orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file.· Metadata updated 17 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
SATCAT ops status
Non-operational [-]
Radar cross-section
2.4 m²

CelesTrak groups

Aliases

  • PHASE 3D (AO-40)Celestrak Satcat

Ownership

Operator & country

Operator
—
SATCAT owner code
GER · Germany
Country
Germany DE

Launch

Launch

Launch page →
Launch date
16 Nov 2000
COSPAR launch id
2000-072
Launch site
Guiana Space Centre, Kourou

Objects from the same launch · 5

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
26609
COSPAR / international designator
2000-072B
SatelliteIndex id
sat_01M28X3JQF087GN9SHXKR5YK2E
Canonical slug
phase-3d-ao-40-26609

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.