Debris object · NORAD 523 · COSPAR 1962-071D
SCOUT X-3 DEB [YO]
- Operator United States
- Constellation —
- Country United States
Altitude now
—
object decayed
Velocity
—
Inclination
90.42°
Period
90.4 min
90.4 min
Perigee
285km
Apogee
302km
orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file — decayed 30 Nov 1980.· Metadata updated 7 d ago
Live position
Live position
Live position unavailable — this object re-entered the atmosphere on 30 Nov 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 X-3 DEB [YO]Celestrak Satcat
Ownership
Operator & country
- Operator
- —
- SATCAT owner code
- US · United States
- Country
- United States US
Launch
Launch
- Launch date
- 19 Dec 1962
- COSPAR launch id
- 1962-071
Objects from the same launch · 4
- SCOUT X-3 DEB514DebrisDecayed
- TRANSIT 5A DEB7258DebrisDecayed
- TRANSIT 5A509PayloadDecayed
- SCOUT X-3 R/B519Rocket 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
- 523
- COSPAR / international designator
- 1962-071D
- SatelliteIndex id
- sat_01M28X3JJA8ZH96VJNKXE6TF1A
- Canonical slug
- scout-x-3-deb-yo-523
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.