Debris object · NORAD 2162 · COSPAR 1966-026C
THOR ALTAIR DEB
- Operator United States
- Constellation —
- Country United States
Altitude now
—
object decayed
Velocity
—
Inclination
98.56°
Period
95.5 min
95.5 min
Perigee
501km
Apogee
583km
orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file — decayed 11 Feb 1967.· Metadata updated 17 h ago
Live position
Live position
Live position unavailable — this object re-entered the atmosphere on 11 Feb 1967 and is no longer tracked.
Mission
Mission & classification
- Mission type derived
- Debris
- Object type
- Debris
- SATCAT ops status
- Decayed [D]
- Radar cross-section
- —
CelesTrak groups
Not listed in any CelesTrak group.
Aliases
- THOR ALTAIR DEBCelestrak Satcat
Ownership
Operator & country
- Operator
- —
- SATCAT owner code
- US · United States
- Country
- United States US
Launch
Launch
- Launch date
- 31 Mar 1966
- COSPAR launch id
- 1966-026
Objects from the same launch · 5
- THOR ALTAIR DEB2177DebrisInactive
- THOR ALTAIR DEB2178DebrisDecayed
- THOR ALTAIR DEB2179DebrisDecayed
- OPS 03402125PayloadUnknown
- THOR ALTAIR R/B2129Rocket 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
- 2162
- COSPAR / international designator
- 1966-026C
- SatelliteIndex id
- sat_01M28X3JJM45SB8SRMRGGWBGHH
- Canonical slug
- thor-altair-deb-2162
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.