Debris object · NORAD 24639 · COSPAR 1978-096G
TIROS N DEB
- Operator United States
- Constellation —
- Country United States
Altitude now
—
object decayed
Velocity
—
Inclination
99.55°
Period
92.2 min
92.2 min
Perigee
346km
Apogee
421km
orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file — decayed 11 Aug 1998.· Metadata updated 11 h ago
Live position
Live position
Live position unavailable — this object re-entered the atmosphere on 11 Aug 1998 and is no longer tracked.
Mission
Mission & classification
- Mission type derived
- Debris
- Object type
- Debris
- SATCAT ops status
- Decayed [D]
- Radar cross-section
- 0.1 m²
CelesTrak groups
Not listed in any CelesTrak group.
Aliases
- TIROS N DEBCelestrak Satcat
Ownership
Operator & country
- Operator
- —
- SATCAT owner code
- US · United States
- Country
- United States US
Launch
Launch
- Launch date
- 13 Oct 1978
- COSPAR launch id
- 1978-096
Objects from the same launch · 7
- TIROS N DEB11061DebrisDecayed
- TIROS N DEB11062DebrisDecayed
- TIROS N DEB18532DebrisDecayed
- TIROS N DEB18786DebrisDecayed
- TIROS N DEB23935DebrisDecayed
- TIROS N DEB28267DebrisDecayed
- TIROS N11060PayloadUnknown
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
- 24639
- COSPAR / international designator
- 1978-096G
- SatelliteIndex id
- sat_01M28X3JQ4HG4ZXGXM2K47RARP
- Canonical slug
- tiros-n-deb-24639
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.