Satellite · NORAD 4250 · COSPAR 1969-101A
SKYNET 1A
- Operator United Kingdom
- Constellation —
- Country United Kingdom
Altitude now
—
no element set
Velocity
—
Inclination
0.65°
Period
23.9 h
1,436.2 min
Perigee
35,678km
Apogee
35,897km
orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file.· Metadata updated 17 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
- Communications
- Object type
- Payload
- SATCAT ops status
- Non-operational [-]
- Radar cross-section
- 1.2 m²
CelesTrak groups
Not listed in any CelesTrak group.
Aliases
- SKYNET 1ACelestrak Satcat
Ownership
Operator & country
- Operator
- —
- SATCAT owner code
- UK · United Kingdom
- Country
- United Kingdom GB
Launch
Launch
- Launch date
- 22 Nov 1969
- COSPAR launch id
- 1969-101
Objects from the same launch · 1
- DELTA 1 R/B4251Rocket 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
- 4250
- COSPAR / international designator
- 1969-101A
- SatelliteIndex id
- sat_01M28X3JK0ZE8DW4B1V7WGBKB5
- Canonical slug
- skynet-1a-4250
Orbit class, mission type and constellation membership are derived by SatelliteIndex (Communications) — see the methodology. Positions are propagated estimates, not tracking measurements; never use them for conjunction assessment.