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Satellite · NORAD 45789 · COSPAR 2020-038BM

SKYSAT-C16

DecayedPayloadLEOEarth observation derived

Altitude now

—

object decayed

Velocity

—

Inclination

52.94°

Period

87.4 min

87.4 min

Perigee

144km

Apogee

147km

orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file — decayed 25 Sept 2024.· Metadata updated 13 h ago

Live position

Live position

Live position unavailable — this object re-entered the atmosphere on 25 Sept 2024 and is no longer tracked.

Mission

Mission & classification

Mission type derived
Earth observation
Object type
Payload
SATCAT ops status
Decayed [D]
Radar cross-section
—
Constellation membership derived
Planet SkySat via name_pattern

CelesTrak groups

Not listed in any CelesTrak group.

Aliases

  • SKYSAT-C16Celestrak Satcat

Ownership

Operator & country

Operator
Planet Labs PBC
SATCAT owner code
US · United States
Country
United States US

Launch

Launch

Launch page →
Launch date
13 Jun 2020
COSPAR launch id
2020-038
Launch site
Cape Canaveral / Kennedy Space Center (Eastern Range), Florida

Objects from the same launch · 40+

All objects from launch 2020-038 →

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

UN Register of Objects Launched into Outer Space (UNOOSA) — connector planned, not yet ingested; registration unavailable

Transparency

Sources & provenance

All sources →

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

All 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
45789
COSPAR / international designator
2020-038BM
SatelliteIndex id
sat_01M28X3JVBD8WSVMV0WEGCAHGN
Canonical slug
skysat-c16-45789

Orbit class, mission type and constellation membership are derived by SatelliteIndex (Earth observation) — see the methodology. Positions are propagated estimates, not tracking measurements; never use them for conjunction assessment.