Satellite · NORAD 11256 · COSPAR 1979-007A
SCATHA
- Operator United States
- Constellation —
- Country United States
Altitude now
—
no element set
Velocity
—
Inclination
9.46°
Period
23.6 h
1,418.4 min
Perigee
27,938km
Apogee
42,939km
orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file.· Metadata updated 15 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
- 3.2 m²
CelesTrak groups
Not listed in any CelesTrak group.
Aliases
- SCATHACelestrak Satcat
Ownership
Operator & country
- Operator
- —
- SATCAT owner code
- US · United States
- Country
- United States US
Launch
Launch
- Launch date
- 30 Jan 1979
- COSPAR launch id
- 1979-007
Objects from the same launch · 2
- DELTA 1 R/B11258Rocket bodyDecayed
- SCATHA AKM29000Rocket bodyInactive
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
- 11256
- COSPAR / international designator
- 1979-007A
- SatelliteIndex id
- sat_01M28X3JMTYMMXHH2AMYDMXXQW
- Canonical slug
- scatha-11256
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.