Satellite · NORAD 61793 · COSPAR 2024-201B
PROTOSAT-1
- Operator Rwanda
- Constellation —
- Country Rwanda
Altitude now
—
object decayed
Velocity
—
Inclination
43.00°
Period
94.3 min
94.3 min
Perigee
482km
Apogee
484km
orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file — decayed 23 Feb 2026.· Metadata updated 8 h ago
Live position
Live position
Live position unavailable — this object re-entered the atmosphere on 23 Feb 2026 and is no longer tracked.
Mission
Mission & classification
- Mission type derived
- Unknown
- Object type
- Payload
- SATCAT ops status
- Decayed [D]
- Radar cross-section
- —
CelesTrak groups
Not listed in any CelesTrak group.
Aliases
- PROTOSAT-1Celestrak Satcat
Ownership
Operator & country
- Operator
- —
- SATCAT owner code
- RWA · Rwanda
- Country
- Rwanda RW
Launch
Launch
- Launch date
- 05 Nov 2024
- COSPAR launch id
- 2024-201
- Launch site
- Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1, Mahia
Objects from the same launch · 2
- ELECTRON KICK STAGE R/B61792Rocket bodyDecayed
- ELECTRON R/B61794Rocket 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
- 61793
- COSPAR / international designator
- 2024-201B
- SatelliteIndex id
- sat_01M28X3JWV76HZ3CNNGR87BX81
- Canonical slug
- protosat-1-61793
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.