Satellite · NORAD 3533 · COSPAR 1968-100A
PIONEER 9
- Operator United States
- Constellation —
- Country United States
Altitude now
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no element set
Velocity
—
Inclination
—
Period
—
Perigee
—
Apogee
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orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file.· Metadata updated 20 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
- Military
- Object type
- Payload
- Radar cross-section
- —
CelesTrak groups
Not listed in any CelesTrak group.
Aliases
- PIONEER 9Celestrak Satcat
Ownership
Operator & country
- Operator
- —
- SATCAT owner code
- US · United States
- Country
- United States US
Launch
Launch
- Launch date
- 08 Nov 1968
- COSPAR launch id
- 1968-100
Objects from the same launch · 4
- DELTA 1 DEB3546DebrisDecayed
- DELTA 1 DEB3548DebrisDecayed
- TETR 23534PayloadDecayed
- DELTA 1 R/B3547Rocket 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
- 3533
- COSPAR / international designator
- 1968-100A
- SatelliteIndex id
- sat_01M28X3JJW9PR81WW7TEHBCEY3
- Canonical slug
- pioneer-9-3533
Orbit class, mission type and constellation membership are derived by SatelliteIndex (Military) — see the methodology. Positions are propagated estimates, not tracking measurements; never use them for conjunction assessment.