Debris object · NORAD 3590 · COSPAR 1966-024E
TRANSIT 12 DEB
- Operator United States
- Constellation —
- Country United States
Altitude now
—
object decayed
Velocity
—
Inclination
89.82°
Period
94.8 min
94.8 min
Perigee
473km
Apogee
541km
orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file — decayed 23 Mar 1978.· Metadata updated 19 h ago
Live position
Live position
Live position unavailable — this object re-entered the atmosphere on 23 Mar 1978 and is no longer tracked.
Mission
Mission & classification
- Mission type derived
- Debris
- Object type
- Debris
- SATCAT ops status
- Decayed [D]
- Radar cross-section
- 0.0 m²
CelesTrak groups
Not listed in any CelesTrak group.
Aliases
- TRANSIT 12 DEBCelestrak Satcat
Ownership
Operator & country
- Operator
- —
- SATCAT owner code
- US · United States
- Country
- United States US
Launch
Launch
- Launch date
- 26 Mar 1966
- COSPAR launch id
- 1966-024
Objects from the same launch · 5
- SCOUT A DEB2353DebrisInactive
- SCOUT A DEB2386DebrisInactive
- TRANSIT 12 DEB12856DebrisDecayed
- OPS 1117 (TRANSIT 12)2119PayloadUnknown
- SCOUT A R/B2120Rocket 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
- 3590
- COSPAR / international designator
- 1966-024E
- SatelliteIndex id
- sat_01M28X3JJW9PR81WW7TEHBCEZW
- Canonical slug
- transit-12-deb-3590
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.