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Satellite · NORAD 28981 · COSPAR 2006-008B

ST5-B

DecayedPayloadLEOUnknown derived

Altitude now

—

object decayed

Velocity

—

Inclination

105.34°

Period

87.6 min

87.6 min

Perigee

128km

Apogee

179km

orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file — decayed 20 Jul 2025.· Metadata updated 9 h ago

Live position

Live position

Live position unavailable — this object re-entered the atmosphere on 20 Jul 2025 and is no longer tracked.

Mission

Mission & classification

Mission type derived
Unknown
Object type
Payload
SATCAT ops status
Decayed [D]
Radar cross-section
0.3 m²

CelesTrak groups

Not listed in any CelesTrak group.

Aliases

  • ST5-BCelestrak Satcat

Ownership

Operator & country

Operator
—
SATCAT owner code
US · United States
Country
United States US

Launch

Launch

Launch page →
Launch date
22 Mar 2006
COSPAR launch id
2006-008
Launch site
Western Range Airspace (air launch)

Objects from the same launch · 4

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
28981
COSPAR / international designator
2006-008B
SatelliteIndex id
sat_01M28X3JQWRGECPV9WZDMJBBXG
Canonical slug
st5-b-28981

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.