Debris object · NORAD 28844 · COSPAR 1991-050J
SARA DEB
- Operator France
- Constellation —
- Country France
Altitude now
—
object decayed
Velocity
—
Inclination
98.12°
Period
90.3 min
90.3 min
Perigee
286km
Apogee
295km
orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file — decayed 26 Sept 2011.· Metadata updated 10 h ago
Live position
Live position
Live position unavailable — this object re-entered the atmosphere on 26 Sept 2011 and is no longer tracked.
Mission
Mission & classification
- Mission type derived
- Debris
- Object type
- Debris
- SATCAT ops status
- Decayed [D]
- Radar cross-section
- 0.1 m²
CelesTrak groups
Not listed in any CelesTrak group.
Aliases
- SARA DEBCelestrak 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 DEB29501DebrisDecayed
- SARA DEB29502DebrisDecayed
- ERS 1 DEB35258DebrisDecayed
- ERS 1 DEB35259DebrisInactive
- ERS 1 DEB35260DebrisInactive
- ERS 1 DEB35261DebrisDecayed
- ERS 1 DEB35262DebrisInactive
- ERS 1 DEB39610DebrisDecayed
- ERS 1 DEB42669DebrisDecayed
- ERS 1 DEB48172DebrisDecayed
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
- 28844
- COSPAR / international designator
- 1991-050J
- SatelliteIndex id
- sat_01M28X3JQV2CRQ4ZEJ4NRBM9XN
- Canonical slug
- sara-deb-28844
Orbit class, mission type and constellation membership are derived by SatelliteIndex (Debris) — see the methodology. Positions are propagated estimates, not tracking measurements; never use them for conjunction assessment.