Satellite · NORAD 1272 · COSPAR 1965-016H
PORCUPINE 1
- Operator United States
- Constellation —
- Country United States
Altitude now
—
no element set
Velocity
—
Inclination
70.08°
Period
103.3 min
103.3 min
Perigee
897km
Apogee
929km
orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file.· Metadata updated 15 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
- Radar cross-section
- 0.2 m²
CelesTrak groups
Not listed in any CelesTrak group.
Aliases
- PORCUPINE 1Celestrak Satcat
Ownership
Operator & country
- Operator
- —
- SATCAT owner code
- US · United States
- Country
- United States US
Launch
Launch
- Launch date
- 09 Mar 1965
- COSPAR launch id
- 1965-016
Objects from the same launch · 10
- OPS 4988 DEB12099DebrisInactive
- GGSE 3 DEB44043DebrisInactive
- SECOR 31208PayloadUnknown
- GGSE 21244PayloadUnknown
- OPS 4988 (GREB 6)1271PayloadUnknown
- SOLRAD 7B1291PayloadUnknown
- GGSE 31292PayloadUnknown
- OSCAR 3 (OSCAR III)1293PayloadUnknown
- SURCAL 21310PayloadDecayed
- THOR AGENA D R/B1245Rocket bodyInactive
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
- 1272
- COSPAR / international designator
- 1965-016H
- SatelliteIndex id
- sat_01M28X3JJF85A23QDAAY72GYHK
- Canonical slug
- porcupine-1-1272
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.