Satellite · NORAD 508 · COSPAR 1962-067D
SURCAL 1A
- Operator United States
- Constellation —
- Country United States
Altitude now
—
object decayed
Velocity
—
Inclination
70.24°
Period
88.7 min
88.7 min
Perigee
164km
Apogee
253km
orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file — decayed 18 Jan 1966.· Metadata updated 7 d ago
Live position
Live position
Live position unavailable — this object re-entered the atmosphere on 18 Jan 1966 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
- SURCAL 1ACelestrak Satcat
Ownership
Operator & country
- Operator
- —
- SATCAT owner code
- US · United States
- Country
- United States US
Launch
Launch
- Launch date
- 13 Dec 1962
- COSPAR launch id
- 1962-067
Objects from the same launch · 5
- BLACK SPHERE502PayloadDecayed
- INJUN 3504PayloadDecayed
- SURCAL 1507PayloadDecayed
- CALSPHERE 1A513PayloadDecayed
- THOR AGENA D R/B520Rocket bodyDecayed
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
- 508
- COSPAR / international designator
- 1962-067D
- SatelliteIndex id
- sat_01M28X3JJA8ZH96VJNKXE6TF0V
- Canonical slug
- surcal-1a-508
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.