Debris object · NORAD 253 · COSPAR 1961-015CE
THOR ABLESTAR DEB
- Operator United States
- Constellation —
- Country United States
Altitude now
—
object decayed
Velocity
—
Inclination
66.87°
Period
88.7 min
88.7 min
Perigee
200km
Apogee
215km
orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file — decayed 11 Mar 2026.· Metadata updated 9 h ago
Live position
Live position
Live position unavailable — this object re-entered the atmosphere on 11 Mar 2026 and is no longer tracked.
Mission
Mission & classification
- Mission type derived
- Debris
- Object type
- Debris
- SATCAT ops status
- Decayed [D]
- Radar cross-section
- 0.0 m²
CelesTrak groups
Not listed in any CelesTrak group.
Aliases
- THOR ABLESTAR DEBCelestrak Satcat
Ownership
Operator & country
- Operator
- —
- SATCAT owner code
- US · United States
- Country
- United States US
Launch
Launch
- Launch date
- 29 Jun 1961
- COSPAR launch id
- 1961-015
Objects from the same launch · 40+
- THOR ABLESTAR DEB119DebrisInactive
- THOR ABLESTAR DEB120DebrisInactive
- THOR ABLESTAR DEB121DebrisInactive
- THOR ABLESTAR DEB122DebrisInactive
- THOR ABLESTAR DEB123DebrisInactive
- THOR ABLESTAR DEB124DebrisInactive
- THOR ABLESTAR DEB125DebrisInactive
- THOR ABLESTAR DEB126DebrisInactive
- THOR ABLESTAR DEB127DebrisInactive
- THOR ABLESTAR DEB128DebrisInactive
- THOR ABLESTAR DEB129DebrisDecayed
- THOR ABLESTAR DEB130DebrisInactive
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
- 253
- COSPAR / international designator
- 1961-015CE
- SatelliteIndex id
- sat_01M28X3JJ9F9BKE6APDHBWKBCP
- Canonical slug
- thor-ablestar-deb-253
Orbit class, mission type and constellation membership are derived by SatelliteIndex (Debris) — see the methodology. Positions are propagated estimates, not tracking measurements; never use them for conjunction assessment.