Debris object · NORAD 5500 · COSPAR 1963-014CP
WESTFORD NEEDLES
- Operator United States
- Constellation —
- Country United States
Altitude now
—
object decayed
Velocity
—
Inclination
83.69°
Period
2.5 h
152.5 min
Perigee
420km
Apogee
5,737km
orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file — decayed 23 Jan 1977.· Metadata updated 21 h ago
Live position
Live position
Live position unavailable — this object re-entered the atmosphere on 23 Jan 1977 and is no longer tracked.
Mission
Mission & classification
- Mission type derived
- Debris
- Object type
- Debris
- SATCAT ops status
- Decayed [D]
- Radar cross-section
- —
CelesTrak groups
Not listed in any CelesTrak group.
Aliases
- WESTFORD NEEDLESCelestrak Satcat
Ownership
Operator & country
- Operator
- —
- SATCAT owner code
- US · United States
- Country
- United States US
Launch
Launch
- Launch date
- 09 May 1963
- COSPAR launch id
- 1963-014
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- WESTFORD NEEDLES629DebrisInactive
- WESTFORD NEEDLES702DebrisInactive
- WESTFORD NEEDLES2359DebrisInactive
- WESTFORD NEEDLES2360DebrisDecayed
- WESTFORD NEEDLES2361DebrisInactive
- WESTFORD NEEDLES2362DebrisInactive
- WESTFORD NEEDLES2363DebrisDecayed
- WESTFORD NEEDLES2364DebrisInactive
- WESTFORD NEEDLES2365DebrisInactive
- WESTFORD NEEDLES2366DebrisDecayed
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
- 5500
- COSPAR / international designator
- 1963-014CP
- SatelliteIndex id
- sat_01M28X3JK8C03V83V7RQ97CY2X
- Canonical slug
- westford-needles-5500
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.