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Satellite · NORAD 40344 · COSPAR 2014-081A

USA 259

ActivePayloadHEOMilitary derived

Altitude now

—

no element set

Velocity

—

Inclination

63.15°

Period

12.0 h

717.9 min

Perigee

1,353km

Apogee

39,006km

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
SATCAT ops status
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 259Celestrak Satcat

Ownership

Operator & country

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

Launch

Launch

Launch page →
Launch date
13 Dec 2014
COSPAR launch id
2014-081
Launch site
Vandenberg Space Force Base (Western Range), California

Objects from the same launch

No other catalogued object is linked to this launch.

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
40344
COSPAR / international designator
2014-081A
SatelliteIndex id
sat_01M28X3JTJADFE8XVY3C69YJFQ
Canonical slug
usa-259-40344

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.