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Satellite · NORAD 43138 · COSPAR 2018-004AD

STEP CUBE LAB

DecayedPayloadLEOUnknown derived
  • Operator Republic of Korea
  • Constellation —
  • Country South Korea

Altitude now

—

object decayed

Velocity

—

Inclination

97.30°

Period

87.3 min

87.3 min

Perigee

131km

Apogee

152km

orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file — decayed 20 May 2023.· Metadata updated 9 h ago

Live position

Live position

Live position unavailable — this object re-entered the atmosphere on 20 May 2023 and is no longer tracked.

Mission

Mission & classification

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

CelesTrak groups

Not listed in any CelesTrak group.

Aliases

  • STEP CUBE LABCelestrak Satcat

Ownership

Operator & country

Operator
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SATCAT owner code
SKOR · Republic of Korea
Country
South Korea KR

Launch

Launch

Launch page →
Launch date
12 Jan 2018
COSPAR launch id
2018-004
Launch site
Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota

Objects from the same launch · 32

All objects from launch 2018-004 →

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
43138
COSPAR / international designator
2018-004AD
SatelliteIndex id
sat_01M28X3JTZX0D00E60QR20CF90
Canonical slug
step-cube-lab-43138

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.