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Satellite · NORAD 23249 · COSPAR 1994-058A

TELSTAR 402

DecayedPayloadLEOCommunications derived

Altitude now

—

object decayed

Velocity

—

Inclination

7.08°

Period

106.0 min

106.0 min

Perigee

99km

Apogee

1,987km

orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file — decayed 14 Nov 2004.· Metadata updated 9 h ago

Live position

Live position

Live position unavailable — this object re-entered the atmosphere on 14 Nov 2004 and is no longer tracked.

Mission

Mission & classification

Mission type derived
Communications
Object type
Payload
SATCAT ops status
Decayed [D]
Radar cross-section
11.4 m²
Constellation membership derived
Telesat (Anik / Telstar / Lightspeed) via name_pattern

CelesTrak groups

Not listed in any CelesTrak group.

Aliases

  • TELSTAR 402Celestrak Satcat

Ownership

Operator & country

Operator
Telesat
SATCAT owner code
US · United States
Country
United States US

Launch

Launch

Launch page →
Launch date
09 Sept 1994
COSPAR launch id
1994-058
Launch site
Guiana Space Centre, Kourou

Objects from the same launch

No other catalogued object is linked to this launch.

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
23249
COSPAR / international designator
1994-058A
SatelliteIndex id
sat_01M28X3JPW00A98G5Y0CYR6T4W
Canonical slug
telstar-402-23249

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.