Satellite · NORAD 4493 · COSPAR 1970-062A
SKYNET 1B
- Operator United Kingdom
- Constellation —
- Country United Kingdom
Altitude now
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no element set
Velocity
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Inclination
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Period
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Perigee
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Apogee
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orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file.· Metadata updated 9 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
- Radar cross-section
- —
CelesTrak groups
Not listed in any CelesTrak group.
Aliases
- SKYNET 1BCelestrak Satcat
Ownership
Operator & country
- Operator
- —
- SATCAT owner code
- UK · United Kingdom
- Country
- United Kingdom GB
Launch
Launch
- Launch date
- 19 Aug 1970
- COSPAR launch id
- 1970-062
Objects from the same launch
No other catalogued object is linked to this launch.
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
- 4493
- COSPAR / international designator
- 1970-062A
- SatelliteIndex id
- sat_01M28X3JK2A48CZN6XHQAM476Q
- Canonical slug
- skynet-1b-4493
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.