Satellite · NORAD 28095 · COSPAR 2003-054A
USA 173
- Operator National Reconnaissance Office
- Constellation USA (classified US military payloads)
- Country United States
Altitude now
—
no element set
Velocity
—
Inclination
63.39°
Period
107.3 min
107.3 min
Perigee
657km
Apogee
1,546km
orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file.· Metadata updated 10 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
- SATCAT ops status
- Non-operational [-]
- Radar cross-section
- —
- Constellation membership derived
- USA (classified US military payloads) via name_pattern
CelesTrak groups
Not listed in any CelesTrak group.
Aliases
- USA 173Celestrak Satcat
Ownership
Operator & country
- Operator
- National Reconnaissance Office
- SATCAT owner code
- US · United States
- Country
- United States US
Launch
Launch
- Launch date
- 02 Dec 2003
- COSPAR launch id
- 2003-054
Objects from the same launch · 2
- USA 173 DEB28097DebrisInactive
- ATLAS 2AS CENTAUR R/B28096Rocket 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
- 28095
- COSPAR / international designator
- 2003-054A
- SatelliteIndex id
- sat_01M28X3JQQ3JS2VT7FC1JS6D8T
- Canonical slug
- usa-173-28095
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.