Debris object · NORAD 60002 · COSPAR 1970-027D
VELA 11/12 INTERSTAGE
- Operator United States
- Constellation —
- Country United States
Altitude now
—
no element set
Velocity
—
Inclination
18.73°
Period
2.2 d
3,136.9 min
Perigee
8,083km
Apogee
121,130km
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
- Debris
- Object type
- Debris
- Radar cross-section
- —
CelesTrak groups
Not listed in any CelesTrak group.
Aliases
- VELA 11/12 INTERSTAGECelestrak Satcat
Ownership
Operator & country
- Operator
- —
- SATCAT owner code
- US · United States
- Country
- United States US
Launch
Launch
- Launch date
- 08 Apr 1970
- COSPAR launch id
- 1970-027
Objects from the same launch · 3
- OPS 7044 (VELA 12)4366PayloadUnknown
- OPS 7033 (VELA 11)4368PayloadUnknown
- TITAN 3C TRANSTAGE R/B50000Rocket 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
- 60002
- COSPAR / international designator
- 1970-027D
- SatelliteIndex id
- sat_01M28X3JWQCJ7KFSNHZAQXA7HE
- Canonical slug
- vela-11-12-interstage-60002
Orbit class, mission type and constellation membership are derived by SatelliteIndex (Debris) — see the methodology. Positions are propagated estimates, not tracking measurements; never use them for conjunction assessment.