Debris object · NORAD 4261 · COSPAR 1969-097E
SCOUT B DEB
- Operator United States
- Constellation —
- Country United States
Altitude now
—
object decayed
Velocity
—
Inclination
103.56°
Period
89.6 min
89.6 min
Perigee
224km
Apogee
287km
orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file — decayed 11 Jul 1980.· Metadata updated 9 h ago
Live position
Live position
Live position unavailable — this object re-entered the atmosphere on 11 Jul 1980 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
- SCOUT B DEBCelestrak Satcat
Ownership
Operator & country
- Operator
- —
- SATCAT owner code
- US · United States
- Country
- United States US
Launch
Launch
- Launch date
- 08 Nov 1969
- COSPAR launch id
- 1969-097
Objects from the same launch · 5
- SCOUT B DEB4242DebrisDecayed
- SCOUT B DEB4243DebrisDecayed
- SCOUT B DEB4265DebrisDecayed
- AZUR (GRS A)4221PayloadUnknown
- SCOUT B R/B4222Rocket bodyDecayed
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
- 4261
- COSPAR / international designator
- 1969-097E
- SatelliteIndex id
- sat_01M28X3JK0ZE8DW4B1V7WGBKBG
- Canonical slug
- scout-b-deb-4261
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.