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Satellite · NORAD 25724 · COSPAR 1999-023A

USA 143 (MILSTAR-2 1)

UnknownPayloadOTHERMilitary derived

Altitude now

—

no element set

Velocity

—

Inclination

28.22°

Period

2.6 h

153.6 min

Perigee

1,099km

Apogee

5,146km

orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file.· Metadata updated 24 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
Military
Object type
Payload
Radar cross-section
—
Constellation membership derived
USA (classified US military payloads) via name_pattern

CelesTrak groups

Not listed in any CelesTrak group.

Aliases

  • USA 143 (MILSTAR-2 1)Celestrak Satcat

Ownership

Operator & country

Operator
National Reconnaissance Office
SATCAT owner code
US · United States
Country
United States US

Launch

Launch

Launch page →
Launch date
30 Apr 1999
COSPAR launch id
1999-023
Launch site
Cape Canaveral / Kennedy Space Center (Eastern Range), Florida

Objects from the same launch · 1

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
25724
COSPAR / international designator
1999-023A
SatelliteIndex id
sat_01M28X3JQA2EVA01MF9DAGNPBE
Canonical slug
usa-143-milstar-2-1-25724

Orbit class, mission type and constellation membership are derived by SatelliteIndex (Military) — see the methodology. Positions are propagated estimates, not tracking measurements; never use them for conjunction assessment.