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Rocket body · NORAD 3271 · COSPAR 1968-042B

THOR BURNER 2 R/B

InactiveRocket bodyLEORocket body derived

Altitude now

no element set

Velocity

Inclination

98.58°

Period

101.6 min

101.6 min

Perigee

797km

Apogee

870km

orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file.· Metadata updated 12 h ago

Live position

Live position

Live position unavailable — no public orbital element set exists for this object (it may be classified, untracked or too small to catalogue).

Mission

Mission & classification

Mission type derived
Rocket body
Object type
Rocket body
Radar cross-section
1.6 m²

CelesTrak groups

Not listed in any CelesTrak group.

Aliases

  • THOR BURNER 2 R/BCelestrak Satcat

Ownership

Operator & country

Operator
SATCAT owner code
US · United States

Launch

Launch

Launch page
Launch date
23 May 1968
COSPAR launch id
1968-042

Objects from the same launch · 1

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
3271
COSPAR / international designator
1968-042B
SatelliteIndex id
sat_01M28X3JJV4YJEF0HWA4V03QMB
Canonical slug
thor-burner-2-r-b-3271

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.

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