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Satellite · NORAD 12103 · COSPAR 1978-078D

PIONEER VENUS PROBE 1

DecayedPayloadOTHERMilitary derived

Altitude now

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object decayed

Velocity

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Inclination

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Period

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Perigee

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Apogee

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orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file — decayed 09 Dec 1978.· Metadata updated 23 h ago

Live position

Live position

Live position unavailable — this object re-entered the atmosphere on 09 Dec 1978 and is no longer tracked.

Mission

Mission & classification

Mission type derived
Military
Object type
Payload
SATCAT ops status
Decayed [D]
Radar cross-section
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CelesTrak groups

Not listed in any CelesTrak group.

Aliases

  • PIONEER VENUS PROBE 1Celestrak Satcat

Ownership

Operator & country

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

Launch

Launch

Launch page →
Launch date
08 Aug 1978
COSPAR launch id
1978-078
Launch site
Cape Canaveral / Kennedy Space Center (Eastern Range), Florida

Objects from the same launch · 6

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
12103
COSPAR / international designator
1978-078D
SatelliteIndex id
sat_01M28X3JMZQ00MJQ2SDXS5TETR
Canonical slug
pioneer-venus-probe-1-12103

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.