Debris object · NORAD 31138 · COSPAR 1979-101H
SATCOM 3 DEB
- Operator United States
- Constellation —
- Country United States
Altitude now
—
no element set
Velocity
—
Inclination
9.27°
Period
13.1 h
786.7 min
Perigee
7,965km
Apogee
35,736km
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
- Debris
- Object type
- Debris
- Radar cross-section
- 0.1 m²
CelesTrak groups
Not listed in any CelesTrak group.
Aliases
- SATCOM 3 DEBCelestrak Satcat
Ownership
Operator & country
- Operator
- —
- SATCAT owner code
- US · United States
- Country
- United States US
Launch
Launch
- Launch date
- 07 Dec 1979
- COSPAR launch id
- 1979-101
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- SATCOM 3 DEB29003DebrisInactive
- SATCOM 3 DEB29004DebrisInactive
- SATCOM 3 DEB32983DebrisInactive
- SATCOM 3 DEB32984DebrisInactive
- SATCOM 3 DEB32985DebrisInactive
- SATCOM 3 DEB32986DebrisInactive
- SATCOM 3 DEB32987DebrisInactive
- SATCOM 3 DEB32988DebrisInactive
- SATCOM 3 DEB32989DebrisInactive
- SATCOM 3 DEB32990DebrisInactive
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
- 31138
- COSPAR / international designator
- 1979-101H
- SatelliteIndex id
- sat_01M28X3JR7SAT2ZCC2GTHCBGMT
- Canonical slug
- satcom-3-deb-31138
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.