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Satellite · NORAD 3533 · COSPAR 1968-100A

PIONEER 9

UnknownPayloadOTHERMilitary derived

Altitude now

no element set

Velocity

Inclination

Period

Perigee

Apogee

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

Launch

Launch

Launch page
Launch date
08 Nov 1968
COSPAR launch id
1968-100

Objects from the same launch · 4

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
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.

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