Debris object · NORAD 44565 · COSPAR 1973-081E
TRANSIT 20 DEB
- Operator United States
- Constellation —
- Country United States
Altitude now
—
no element set
Velocity
—
Inclination
89.86°
Period
104.7 min
104.7 min
Perigee
878km
Apogee
1,082km
orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file.· Metadata updated 15 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
- Debris
- Object type
- Debris
- Radar cross-section
- —
CelesTrak groups
Not listed in any CelesTrak group.
Aliases
- TRANSIT 20 DEBCelestrak Satcat
Ownership
Operator & country
- Operator
- —
- SATCAT owner code
- US · United States
- Country
- United States US
Launch
Launch
- Launch date
- 30 Oct 1973
- COSPAR launch id
- 1973-081
Objects from the same launch · 4
- SCOUT A-1 DEB15764DebrisInactive
- SCOUT A-1 DEB18496DebrisInactive
- NNSS 20 (TRANSIT 20)6909PayloadUnknown
- SCOUT A-1 R/B6910Rocket 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
- 44565
- COSPAR / international designator
- 1973-081E
- SatelliteIndex id
- sat_01M28X3JV6TZ77N70B2NQJ4QSR
- Canonical slug
- transit-20-deb-44565
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.