Satellite · NORAD 7096 · COSPAR 1974-002A
SKYNET 2A
- Operator United Kingdom
- Constellation —
- Country United Kingdom
Altitude now
—
object decayed
Velocity
—
Inclination
26.55°
Period
9.4 h
562.6 min
Perigee
1,074km
Apogee
31,319km
orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file — decayed 25 Jan 1974.· Metadata updated 9 h ago
Live position
Live position
Live position unavailable — this object re-entered the atmosphere on 25 Jan 1974 and is no longer tracked.
Mission
Mission & classification
- Mission type derived
- Communications
- Object type
- Payload
- SATCAT ops status
- Decayed [D]
- Radar cross-section
- —
CelesTrak groups
Not listed in any CelesTrak group.
Aliases
- SKYNET 2ACelestrak Satcat
Ownership
Operator & country
- Operator
- —
- SATCAT owner code
- UK · United Kingdom
- Country
- United Kingdom GB
Launch
Launch
- Launch date
- 19 Jan 1974
- COSPAR launch id
- 1974-002
Objects from the same launch · 3
- THORAD DELTA 1 DEB7098DebrisDecayed
- THORAD DELTA 1 DEB7099DebrisDecayed
- THORAD DELTA 1 R/B7097Rocket 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
- 7096
- COSPAR / international designator
- 1974-002A
- SatelliteIndex id
- sat_01M28X3JKGVMRV49E6X6GC90FP
- Canonical slug
- skynet-2a-7096
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.