Satellite · NORAD 704 · COSPAR 1963-049B
TRANSIT 5B-2
- Operator United States
- Constellation —
- Country United States
Altitude now
—
no element set
Velocity
—
Inclination
89.92°
Period
106.9 min
106.9 min
Perigee
1,056km
Apogee
1,110km
orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file.· Metadata updated 13 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
- Unknown
- Object type
- Payload
- Radar cross-section
- 1.1 m²
CelesTrak groups
Not listed in any CelesTrak group.
Aliases
- TRANSIT 5B-2Celestrak Satcat
Ownership
Operator & country
- Operator
- —
- SATCAT owner code
- US · United States
- Country
- United States US
Launch
Launch
- Launch date
- 05 Dec 1963
- COSPAR launch id
- 1963-049
Objects from the same launch · 13
- THOR ABLESTAR DEB706DebrisInactive
- THOR ABLESTAR DEB715DebrisInactive
- THOR ABLESTAR DEB753DebrisInactive
- THOR ABLESTAR DEB2432DebrisInactive
- THOR ABLESTAR DEB2620DebrisInactive
- TRANSIT 5B-2 DEB2930DebrisDecayed
- TRANSIT 5B2-5E3 DEB4586DebrisDecayed
- TRANSIT 5B2-5E3 DEB6182DebrisDecayed
- TRANSIT 5B2-5E3 DEB6283DebrisDecayed
- TRANSIT 5B-2 DEB25156DebrisInactive
- TRANSIT 5B-2 DEB42666DebrisDecayed
- TRANSIT 5E-3705PayloadUnknown
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
- 704
- COSPAR / international designator
- 1963-049B
- SatelliteIndex id
- sat_01M28X3JJCP6W1J01F09Z6JYDD
- Canonical slug
- transit-5b-2-704
Orbit class, mission type and constellation membership are derived by SatelliteIndex (Unknown) — see the methodology. Positions are propagated estimates, not tracking measurements; never use them for conjunction assessment.