Satellite · NORAD 16937 · COSPAR 1986-069A
USA 19
- Operator National Reconnaissance Office
- Constellation USA (classified US military payloads)
- Country United States
Altitude now
—
object decayed
Velocity
—
Inclination
39.05°
Period
89.5 min
89.5 min
Perigee
177km
Apogee
326km
orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file — decayed 28 Sept 1986.· Metadata updated 9 h ago
Live position
Live position
Live position unavailable — this object re-entered the atmosphere on 28 Sept 1986 and is no longer tracked.
Mission
Mission & classification
- Mission type derived
- Military
- Object type
- Payload
- SATCAT ops status
- Decayed [D]
- Radar cross-section
- —
- Constellation membership derived
- USA (classified US military payloads) via name_pattern
CelesTrak groups
Not listed in any CelesTrak group.
Aliases
- USA 19Celestrak Satcat
Ownership
Operator & country
- Operator
- National Reconnaissance Office
- SATCAT owner code
- US · United States
- Country
- United States US
Launch
Launch
- Launch date
- 05 Sept 1986
- COSPAR launch id
- 1986-069
Objects from the same launch · 17
- USA 19 DEB16940DebrisDecayed
- USA 19 DEB16941DebrisDecayed
- USA 19 DEB16942DebrisDecayed
- USA 19 DEB16943DebrisDecayed
- USA 19 DEB16944DebrisDecayed
- USA 19 DEB16945DebrisDecayed
- DELTA 1 DEB16946DebrisDecayed
- DELTA 1 DEB16947DebrisDecayed
- DELTA 1 DEB16948DebrisDecayed
- DELTA 1 DEB16949DebrisDecayed
- USA 19 DEB16950DebrisDecayed
- USA 19 DEB16951DebrisDecayed
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
- 16937
- COSPAR / international designator
- 1986-069A
- SatelliteIndex id
- sat_01M28X3JNTCV47R9DT3WPVRMX5
- Canonical slug
- usa-19-16937
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.