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Rocket body · NORAD 14236 · COSPAR 1983-077C

TELSTAR 3A R/B [PAM-D]

DecayedRocket bodyLEORocket body derived

Altitude now

object decayed

Velocity

Inclination

22.60°

Period

87.8 min

87.8 min

Perigee

134km

Apogee

200km

orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file — decayed 14 Sept 2001.· Metadata updated 11 h ago

Live position

Live position

Live position unavailable — this object re-entered the atmosphere on 14 Sept 2001 and is no longer tracked.

Mission

Mission & classification

Mission type derived
Rocket body
Object type
Rocket body
SATCAT ops status
Decayed [D]
Radar cross-section
2.9 m²

CelesTrak groups

Not listed in any CelesTrak group.

Aliases

  • TELSTAR 3A R/B [PAM-D]Celestrak Satcat

Ownership

Operator & country

Operator
SATCAT owner code
US · United States

Launch

Launch

Launch page
Launch date
28 Jul 1983
COSPAR launch id
1983-077

Objects from the same launch · 2

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
14236
COSPAR / international designator
1983-077C
SatelliteIndex id
sat_01M28X3JNBPSNMEM4JQQ8FMJ9A
Canonical slug
telstar-3a-r-b-pam-d-14236

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