Rocket body · NORAD 2129 · COSPAR 1966-026B
THOR ALTAIR R/B
- Operator United States
- Constellation —
- Country United States
Altitude now
—
object decayed
Velocity
—
Inclination
98.14°
Period
87.4 min
87.4 min
Perigee
134km
Apogee
152km
orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file — decayed 11 May 2002.· Metadata updated 16 h ago
Live position
Live position
Live position unavailable — this object re-entered the atmosphere on 11 May 2002 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
- 0.9 m²
CelesTrak groups
Not listed in any CelesTrak group.
Aliases
- THOR ALTAIR R/BCelestrak 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 DEB2162DebrisDecayed
- THOR ALTAIR DEB2177DebrisInactive
- THOR ALTAIR DEB2178DebrisDecayed
- THOR ALTAIR DEB2179DebrisDecayed
- OPS 03402125PayloadUnknown
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
- 2129
- COSPAR / international designator
- 1966-026B
- SatelliteIndex id
- sat_01M28X3JJM45SB8SRMRGGWBGGG
- Canonical slug
- thor-altair-r-b-2129
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.