Satellite · NORAD 21578 · COSPAR 1991-050E
SARA
- Operator France
- Constellation —
- Country France
Altitude now
—
no element set
Velocity
—
Inclination
98.09°
Period
98.7 min
98.7 min
Perigee
695km
Apogee
696km
orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file.· Metadata updated 10 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
- Earth observation
- Object type
- Payload
- Radar cross-section
- 0.5 m²
CelesTrak groups
Not listed in any CelesTrak group.
Aliases
- SARACelestrak Satcat
Ownership
Operator & country
- Operator
- —
- SATCAT owner code
- FR · France
- Country
- France FR
Launch
Launch
- Launch date
- 17 Jul 1991
- COSPAR launch id
- 1991-050
- Launch site
- Guiana Space Centre, Kourou
Objects from the same launch · 18
- ARIANE 40 DEB26925DebrisDecayed
- SARA DEB28065DebrisDecayed
- SARA DEB28844DebrisDecayed
- SARA DEB29501DebrisDecayed
- SARA DEB29502DebrisDecayed
- ERS 1 DEB35258DebrisDecayed
- ERS 1 DEB35259DebrisInactive
- ERS 1 DEB35260DebrisInactive
- ERS 1 DEB35261DebrisDecayed
- ERS 1 DEB35262DebrisInactive
- ERS 1 DEB39610DebrisDecayed
- ERS 1 DEB42669DebrisDecayed
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
- 21578
- COSPAR / international designator
- 1991-050E
- SatelliteIndex id
- sat_01M28X3JPKDVSSD2Y60ZHP1X14
- Canonical slug
- sara-21578
Orbit class, mission type and constellation membership are derived by SatelliteIndex (Earth observation) — see the methodology. Positions are propagated estimates, not tracking measurements; never use them for conjunction assessment.