Debris object · NORAD 5540 · COSPAR 1964-083L
TRANSIT 5E-5 DEB
- Operator United States
- Constellation —
- Country United States
Altitude now
—
object decayed
Velocity
—
Inclination
89.72°
Period
94.4 min
94.4 min
Perigee
467km
Apogee
515km
orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file — decayed 20 Feb 1979.· Metadata updated 28 h ago
Live position
Live position
Live position unavailable — this object re-entered the atmosphere on 20 Feb 1979 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 5E-5 DEBCelestrak Satcat
Ownership
Operator & country
- Operator
- —
- SATCAT owner code
- US · United States
- Country
- United States US
Launch
Launch
- Launch date
- 13 Dec 1964
- COSPAR launch id
- 1964-083
Objects from the same launch · 18
- THOR ABLESTAR DEB956DebrisInactive
- THOR ABLESTAR DEB966DebrisDecayed
- THOR ABLESTAR DEB967DebrisInactive
- THOR ABLESTAR DEB1099DebrisInactive
- THOR ABLESTAR DEB1608DebrisInactive
- TRANSIT 5E-5 DEB2798DebrisDecayed
- TRANSIT 5E-5 DEB5444DebrisDecayed
- TRANSIT 5E-5 DEB28248DebrisDecayed
- TRANSIT 5E-5 DEB38524DebrisDecayed
- TRANSIT 5E-5 DEB38525DebrisDecayed
- TRANSIT 5E-5 DEB38526DebrisDecayed
- TRANSIT 5E-5 DEB38527DebrisDecayed
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
- 5540
- COSPAR / international designator
- 1964-083L
- SatelliteIndex id
- sat_01M28X3JK8C03V83V7RQ97CY45
- Canonical slug
- transit-5e-5-deb-5540
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.