Satellite · NORAD 12491 · COSPAR 1981-051A
ROHINI 2
- Operator India
- Constellation —
- Country India
Altitude now
—
object decayed
Velocity
—
Inclination
46.25°
Period
87.9 min
87.9 min
Perigee
143km
Apogee
197km
orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file — decayed 08 Jun 1981.· Metadata updated 9 h ago
Live position
Live position
Live position unavailable — this object re-entered the atmosphere on 08 Jun 1981 and is no longer tracked.
Mission
Mission & classification
- Mission type derived
- Unknown
- Object type
- Payload
- SATCAT ops status
- Decayed [D]
- Radar cross-section
- 1.0 m²
CelesTrak groups
Not listed in any CelesTrak group.
Aliases
- ROHINI 2Celestrak Satcat
Ownership
Operator & country
- Operator
- —
- SATCAT owner code
- IND · India
- Country
- India IN
Launch
Launch
- Launch date
- 31 May 1981
- COSPAR launch id
- 1981-051
- Launch site
- Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota
Objects from the same launch · 1
- SLV-3 R/B12492Rocket 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
- 12491
- COSPAR / international designator
- 1981-051A
- SatelliteIndex id
- sat_01M28X3JN1T2KP15BBVVKD051E
- Canonical slug
- rohini-2-12491
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.