Satellite · NORAD 8884 · COSPAR 1976-038J
SSU 3
- Operator United States
- Constellation —
- Country United States
Altitude now
—
no element set
Velocity
—
Inclination
63.36°
Period
103.7 min
103.7 min
Perigee
671km
Apogee
1,200km
orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file.· Metadata updated 12 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
- Unknown
- Object type
- Payload
- Radar cross-section
- —
CelesTrak groups
Not listed in any CelesTrak group.
Aliases
- SSU 3Celestrak Satcat
Ownership
Operator & country
- Operator
- —
- SATCAT owner code
- US · United States
- Country
- United States US
Launch
Launch
- Launch date
- 30 Apr 1976
- COSPAR launch id
- 1976-038
Objects from the same launch · 10
- OPS 6431 DEB8839DebrisInactive
- OPS 6431 DEB8842DebrisInactive
- OPS 6431 DEB8843DebrisInactive
- OPS 6431 DEB8859DebrisInactive
- OPS 6431 DEB9796DebrisInactive
- OPS 6431 DEB9996DebrisInactive
- OPS 64318818PayloadUnknown
- SSU 18835PayloadUnknown
- SSU 28836PayloadUnknown
- ATLAS R/B8819Rocket 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
- 8884
- COSPAR / international designator
- 1976-038J
- SatelliteIndex id
- sat_01M28X3JMD3CJM2T56QDKNX4D4
- Canonical slug
- ssu-3-8884
Orbit class, mission type and constellation membership are derived by SatelliteIndex (Unknown) — see the methodology. Positions are propagated estimates, not tracking measurements; never use them for conjunction assessment.