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Satellite · NORAD 27561 · COSPAR 2002-054C

RUBIN-3 & SL-8 R/B

UnknownPayloadLEOUnknown derived
  • Operator Germany
  • Constellation
  • Country Germany

Altitude now

no element set

Velocity

Inclination

98.45°

Period

98.7 min

98.7 min

Perigee

667km

Apogee

728km

orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file.· Metadata updated 8 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
5.2 m²

CelesTrak groups

Not listed in any CelesTrak group.

Aliases

  • RUBIN-3 & SL-8 R/BCelestrak Satcat

Ownership

Operator & country

Operator
SATCAT owner code
GER · Germany
Country
Germany DE

Launch

Launch

Launch page
Launch date
28 Nov 2002
COSPAR launch id
2002-054

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
27561
COSPAR / international designator
2002-054C
SatelliteIndex id
sat_01M28X3JQNQFSD4CV7SCX5SM9R
Canonical slug
rubin-3-sl-8-r-b-27561

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.