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Debris object · NORAD 25960 · COSPAR 1999-061E

SZ-1 DEB

DecayedDebrisLEODebris derived
  • Operator People's Republic of China
  • Constellation
  • Country China

Altitude now

object decayed

Velocity

Inclination

42.59°

Period

87.7 min

87.7 min

Perigee

145km

Apogee

174km

orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file — decayed 01 Dec 1999.· Metadata updated 10 h ago

Live position

Live position

Live position unavailable — this object re-entered the atmosphere on 01 Dec 1999 and is no longer tracked.

Mission

Mission & classification

Mission type derived
Debris
Object type
Debris
SATCAT ops status
Decayed [D]
Radar cross-section
8.3 m²

CelesTrak groups

Not listed in any CelesTrak group.

Aliases

  • SZ-1 DEBCelestrak Satcat

Ownership

Operator & country

Operator
SATCAT owner code
PRC · People's Republic of China
Country
China CN

Launch

Launch

Launch page
Launch date
19 Nov 1999
COSPAR launch id
1999-061

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
25960
COSPAR / international designator
1999-061E
SatelliteIndex id
sat_01M28X3JQB92CNK8DB33HQ841E
Canonical slug
sz-1-deb-25960

Orbit class, mission type and constellation membership are derived by SatelliteIndex (Debris) — see the methodology. Positions are propagated estimates, not tracking measurements; never use them for conjunction assessment.

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