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Satellite · NORAD 42723 · COSPAR 1998-067MC

UNSW-ECO

DecayedPayloadLEOUnknown derived
  • Operator Australia
  • Constellation
  • Country Australia

Altitude now

object decayed

Velocity

Inclination

51.63°

Period

87.5 min

87.5 min

Perigee

145km

Apogee

153km

orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file — decayed 03 Dec 2018.· Metadata updated 8 h ago

Live position

Live position

Live position unavailable — this object re-entered the atmosphere on 03 Dec 2018 and is no longer tracked.

Mission

Mission & classification

Mission type derived
Unknown
Object type
Payload
SATCAT ops status
Decayed [D]
Radar cross-section

CelesTrak groups

Not listed in any CelesTrak group.

Aliases

  • UNSW-ECOCelestrak Satcat

Ownership

Operator & country

Operator
SATCAT owner code
AUS · Australia

Launch

Launch

Launch page
Launch date
20 Nov 1998
COSPAR launch id
1998-067

Objects from the same launch · 40+

All objects from launch 1998-067

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

UN Register of Objects Launched into Outer Space (UNOOSA) — connector planned, not yet ingested; registration unavailable

Transparency

Sources & provenance

All sources

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

All 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
42723
COSPAR / international designator
1998-067MC
SatelliteIndex id
sat_01M28X3JTYYCTRKZHTWC1VGP45
Canonical slug
unsw-eco-42723

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.