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Satellite · NORAD 27940 · COSPAR 2003-042B

RUBIN-4 & SL-8 R/B

UnknownPayloadLEOUnknown derived
  • Operator Germany
  • Constellation —
  • Country Germany

Altitude now

—

no element set

Velocity

—

Inclination

98.39°

Period

98.0 min

98.0 min

Perigee

652km

Apogee

673km

orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file.· Metadata updated 18 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
6.4 m²

CelesTrak groups

Not listed in any CelesTrak group.

Aliases

  • RUBIN-4 & SL-8 R/BCelestrak Satcat

Ownership

Operator & country

Operator
—
SATCAT owner code
GER · Germany
Country
Germany DE

Launch

Launch

Launch page →
Launch date
27 Sept 2003
COSPAR launch id
2003-042
Launch site
Plesetsk Cosmodrome

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
27940
COSPAR / international designator
2003-042B
SatelliteIndex id
sat_01M28X3JQPKZYWTJYHRK309CBN
Canonical slug
rubin-4-sl-8-r-b-27940

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.