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Satellite · NORAD 29647 · COSPAR 2006-055A

STS 116

DecayedPayloadLEOUnknown derived

Altitude now

—

object decayed

Velocity

—

Inclination

51.63°

Period

91.1 min

91.1 min

Perigee

314km

Apogee

339km

orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file — decayed 22 Dec 2006.· Metadata updated 20 h ago

Live position

Live position

Live position unavailable — this object re-entered the atmosphere on 22 Dec 2006 and is no longer tracked.

Mission

Mission & classification

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

CelesTrak groups

Not listed in any CelesTrak group.

Aliases

  • STS 116Celestrak Satcat

Ownership

Operator & country

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

Launch

Launch

Launch page →
Launch date
10 Dec 2006
COSPAR launch id
2006-055
Launch site
Cape Canaveral / Kennedy Space Center (Eastern Range), Florida

Objects from the same launch · 8

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
29647
COSPAR / international designator
2006-055A
SatelliteIndex id
sat_01M28X3JQZXWENWV0EEATTWTY5
Canonical slug
sts-116-29647

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.