Satellite · NORAD 15159 · COSPAR 1984-081B
TELECOM 1A
- Operator France
- Constellation —
- Country France
Altitude now
—
no element set
Velocity
—
Inclination
12.67°
Period
1.0 d
1,463.5 min
Perigee
36,183km
Apogee
36,458km
orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file.· Metadata updated 12 h ago
Live position
Live position
Live position unavailable — no public orbital element set exists for this object (it may be classified, untracked or too small to catalogue).
Mission
Mission & classification
- Mission type derived
- Unknown
- Object type
- Payload
- SATCAT ops status
- Non-operational [-]
- Radar cross-section
- 10.2 m²
CelesTrak groups
Not listed in any CelesTrak group.
Aliases
- TELECOM 1ACelestrak Satcat
Ownership
Operator & country
- Operator
- —
- SATCAT owner code
- FR · France
- Country
- France FR
Launch
Launch
- Launch date
- 04 Aug 1984
- COSPAR launch id
- 1984-081
- Launch site
- Guiana Space Centre, Kourou
Objects from the same launch · 7
- ARIANE 3 DEB [SYLDA]15166DebrisInactive
- ARIANE 3 DEB20674DebrisInactive
- ARIANE 3 DEB27648DebrisInactive
- ARIANE 3 DEB48347DebrisInactive
- ARIANE 3 DEB48348DebrisInactive
- EUTELSAT 1-F2 (ECS 2)15158PayloadUnknown
- ARIANE 3 R/B15165Rocket 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
- 15159
- COSPAR / international designator
- 1984-081B
- SatelliteIndex id
- sat_01M28X3JNG9R059DA3V2TFZ505
- Canonical slug
- telecom-1a-15159
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.