Satellite · NORAD 16624 · COSPAR 1986-014E
USA 16
- Operator National Reconnaissance Office
- Constellation USA (classified US military payloads)
- Country United States
Altitude now
—
no element set
Velocity
—
Inclination
63.30°
Period
104.9 min
104.9 min
Perigee
410km
Apogee
1,570km
orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file.· Metadata updated 12 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 16Celestrak Satcat
Ownership
Operator & country
- Operator
- National Reconnaissance Office
- SATCAT owner code
- US · United States
- Country
- United States US
Launch
Launch
- Launch date
- 09 Feb 1986
- COSPAR launch id
- 1986-014
Objects from the same launch · 8
- USA 15 DEB16622DebrisInactive
- USA 15 DEB16623DebrisDecayed
- USA 15 DEB16630DebrisDecayed
- USA 15 DEB44435DebrisDecayed
- USA 1516591PayloadUnknown
- USA 1716625PayloadUnknown
- USA 1816631PayloadUnknown
- ATLAS H R/B16592Rocket 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
- 16624
- COSPAR / international designator
- 1986-014E
- SatelliteIndex id
- sat_01M28X3JNRKBPHN5PGCPDS82MZ
- Canonical slug
- usa-16-16624
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.