Satellite · NORAD 573 · COSPAR 1963-013A
TELSTAR 2 (A-41)
- Operator Telesat
- Constellation Telesat (Anik / Telstar / Lightspeed)
- Country United States
Altitude now
—
no element set
Velocity
—
Inclination
42.76°
Period
3.8 h
225.3 min
Perigee
962km
Apogee
10,808km
orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file.· Metadata updated 9 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
- Communications
- Object type
- Payload
- Radar cross-section
- 0.5 m²
- Constellation membership derived
- Telesat (Anik / Telstar / Lightspeed) via name_pattern
CelesTrak groups
Not listed in any CelesTrak group.
Aliases
- TELSTAR 2 (A-41)Celestrak Satcat
Ownership
Operator & country
- Operator
- Telesat
- SATCAT owner code
- US · United States
- Country
- United States US
Launch
Launch
- Launch date
- 07 May 1963
- COSPAR launch id
- 1963-013
Objects from the same launch · 1
- DELTA 1 R/B575Rocket bodyInactive
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
- 573
- COSPAR / international designator
- 1963-013A
- SatelliteIndex id
- sat_01M28X3JJB5PFG65A93N68SCX7
- Canonical slug
- telstar-2-a-41-573
Orbit class, mission type and constellation membership are derived by SatelliteIndex (Communications) — see the methodology. Positions are propagated estimates, not tracking measurements; never use them for conjunction assessment.