Satellite · NORAD 24209 · COSPAR 1996-044B
TELECOM 2D
- Operator France
- Constellation —
- Country France
Altitude now
—
no element set
Velocity
—
Inclination
13.18°
Period
1.0 d
1,462.7 min
Perigee
36,251km
Apogee
36,361km
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
- 12.5 m²
CelesTrak groups
Not listed in any CelesTrak group.
Aliases
- TELECOM 2DCelestrak Satcat
Ownership
Operator & country
- Operator
- —
- SATCAT owner code
- FR · France
- Country
- France FR
Launch
Launch
- Launch date
- 08 Aug 1996
- COSPAR launch id
- 1996-044
- Launch site
- Guiana Space Centre, Kourou
Objects from the same launch · 3
- ARIANE DEB [SPELDA]24211DebrisDecayed
- ITALSAT 224208PayloadUnknown
- ARIANE 44L+3 R/B24210Rocket 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
- 24209
- COSPAR / international designator
- 1996-044B
- SatelliteIndex id
- sat_01M28X3JQ2NJMSV139MAE1H511
- Canonical slug
- telecom-2d-24209
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.