Satellite · NORAD 24889 · COSPAR 1997-039A
STS 85
- Operator United States
- Constellation —
- Country United States
Altitude now
—
object decayed
Velocity
—
Inclination
56.99°
Period
89.6 min
89.6 min
Perigee
249km
Apogee
261km
orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file — decayed 19 Aug 1997.· Metadata updated 3 d ago
Live position
Live position
Live position unavailable — this object re-entered the atmosphere on 19 Aug 1997 and is no longer tracked.
Mission
Mission & classification
- Mission type derived
- Unknown
- Object type
- Payload
- SATCAT ops status
- Decayed [D]
- Radar cross-section
- 39.1 m²
CelesTrak groups
Not listed in any CelesTrak group.
Aliases
- STS 85Celestrak Satcat
Ownership
Operator & country
- Operator
- —
- SATCAT owner code
- US · United States
- Country
- United States US
Launch
Launch
- Launch date
- 07 Aug 1997
- COSPAR launch id
- 1997-039
Objects from the same launch · 1
- CRISTA-SPAS24890PayloadDecayed
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
- 24889
- COSPAR / international designator
- 1997-039A
- SatelliteIndex id
- sat_01M28X3JQ5W8GYWNW7XWXCWZ2P
- Canonical slug
- sts-85-24889
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.