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Satellite · NORAD 43340 · COSPAR 2018-036B

USA 284

ActivePayloadGEOMilitary derived

Altitude now

—

no element set

Velocity

—

Inclination

7.42°

Period

1.0 d

1,491.6 min

Perigee

36,786km

Apogee

36,945km

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
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 284Celestrak Satcat

Ownership

Operator & country

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

Launch

Launch

Launch page →
Launch date
14 Apr 2018
COSPAR launch id
2018-036
Launch site
Cape Canaveral / Kennedy Space Center (Eastern Range), Florida

Objects from the same launch · 6

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
43340
COSPAR / international designator
2018-036B
SatelliteIndex id
sat_01M28X3JV0Q2N9D1CJH21PFP1Y
Canonical slug
usa-284-43340

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.