Rocket body · NORAD 24738 · COSPAR 1997-008B
TITAN 4B R/B
- Operator United States
- Constellation —
- Country United States
Altitude now
—
object decayed
Velocity
—
Inclination
—
Period
—
Perigee
—
Apogee
—
orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file — decayed 26 Jun 1997.· Metadata updated 10 h ago
Live position
Live position
Live position unavailable — this object re-entered the atmosphere on 26 Jun 1997 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
- 9.7 m²
CelesTrak groups
Not listed in any CelesTrak group.
Aliases
- TITAN 4B R/BCelestrak Satcat
Ownership
Operator & country
- Operator
- —
- SATCAT owner code
- US · United States
- Country
- United States US
Launch
Launch
- Launch date
- 23 Feb 1997
- COSPAR launch id
- 1997-008
Objects from the same launch · 4
- USA 130 DEB27680DebrisInactive
- USA 130 (DSP 18)24737PayloadUnknown
- IUS R/B(1)24739Rocket bodyInactive
- IUS R/B(2)24740Rocket bodyInactive
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
- 24738
- COSPAR / international designator
- 1997-008B
- SatelliteIndex id
- sat_01M28X3JQ5W8GYWNW7XWXCWYY0
- Canonical slug
- titan-4b-r-b-24738
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.