Satellite · NORAD 18847 · COSPAR 1988-008A
USA 30
- Operator National Reconnaissance Office
- Constellation USA (classified US military payloads)
- Country United States
Altitude now
—
object decayed
Velocity
—
Inclination
28.57°
Period
88.1 min
88.1 min
Perigee
168km
Apogee
195km
orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file — decayed 01 Mar 1988.· Metadata updated 11 h ago
Live position
Live position
Live position unavailable — this object re-entered the atmosphere on 01 Mar 1988 and is no longer tracked.
Mission
Mission & classification
- Mission type derived
- Military
- Object type
- Payload
- SATCAT ops status
- Decayed [D]
- Radar cross-section
- 5.9 m²
- Constellation membership derived
- USA (classified US military payloads) via name_pattern
CelesTrak groups
Not listed in any CelesTrak group.
Aliases
- USA 30Celestrak Satcat
Ownership
Operator & country
- Operator
- National Reconnaissance Office
- SATCAT owner code
- US · United States
- Country
- United States US
Launch
Launch
- Launch date
- 08 Feb 1988
- COSPAR launch id
- 1988-008
Objects from the same launch · 3
- DELTA 1 DEB18849DebrisDecayed
- DELTA 1 DEB18854DebrisDecayed
- DELTA 1 R/B18848Rocket bodyDecayed
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
- 18847
- COSPAR / international designator
- 1988-008A
- SatelliteIndex id
- sat_01M28X3JP4VJDRKDMER8SWBQE5
- Canonical slug
- usa-30-18847
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.