Satellite · NORAD 46304 · COSPAR 2020-061AJ
SPACEBEE-18
- Operator Swarm Technologies (SpaceX)
- Constellation Swarm (SpaceBEE)
- Country United States
Altitude now
—
object decayed
Velocity
—
Inclination
97.38°
Period
88.3 min
88.3 min
Perigee
175km
Apogee
202km
orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file — decayed 23 May 2023.· Metadata updated 8 h ago
Live position
Live position
Live position unavailable — this object re-entered the atmosphere on 23 May 2023 and is no longer tracked.
Mission
Mission & classification
- Mission type derived
- IoT / M2M
- Object type
- Payload
- SATCAT ops status
- Decayed [D]
- Radar cross-section
- —
- Constellation membership derived
- Swarm (SpaceBEE) via name_pattern
CelesTrak groups
Not listed in any CelesTrak group.
Aliases
- SPACEBEE-18Celestrak Satcat
Ownership
Operator & country
- Operator
- Swarm Technologies (SpaceX)
- SATCAT owner code
- US · United States
- Country
- United States US
Launch
Launch
- Launch date
- 03 Sept 2020
- COSPAR launch id
- 2020-061
- Launch site
- Guiana Space Centre, Kourou
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- ATHENA46275PayloadActive
- UPMSAT-246276PayloadDecayed
- NEMO-HD46277PayloadActive
- GHGSAT-C146278PayloadActive
- SIMBA46279PayloadDecayed
- TRISAT46280PayloadDecayed
- PICASSO-BEL46281PayloadDecayed
- FLOCK 4V-946282PayloadDecayed
- FLOCK 4V-1246283PayloadDecayed
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
- 46304
- COSPAR / international designator
- 2020-061AJ
- SatelliteIndex id
- sat_01M28X3JVD6TX1GEKGMP3H66QZ
- Canonical slug
- spacebee-18-46304
Orbit class, mission type and constellation membership are derived by SatelliteIndex (IoT / M2M) — see the methodology. Positions are propagated estimates, not tracking measurements; never use them for conjunction assessment.