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Debris object · NORAD 41743 · COSPAR 2009-055L

WORLDVIEW-2 DEB

DecayedDebrisLEODebris derived

Altitude now

—

object decayed

Velocity

—

Inclination

98.53°

Period

98.7 min

98.7 min

Perigee

690km

Apogee

700km

orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file — decayed 30 Apr 2024.· Metadata updated 10 h ago

Live position

Live position

Live position unavailable — this object re-entered the atmosphere on 30 Apr 2024 and is no longer tracked.

Mission

Mission & classification

Mission type derived
Debris
Object type
Debris
SATCAT ops status
Decayed [D]
Radar cross-section
0.0 m²

CelesTrak groups

Not listed in any CelesTrak group.

Aliases

  • WORLDVIEW-2 DEBCelestrak Satcat

Ownership

Operator & country

Operator
—
SATCAT owner code
US · United States
Country
United States US

Launch

Launch

Launch page →
Launch date
08 Oct 2009
COSPAR launch id
2009-055
Launch site
Vandenberg Space Force Base (Western Range), California

Objects from the same launch · 17

All objects from launch 2009-055 →

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
41743
COSPAR / international designator
2009-055L
SatelliteIndex id
sat_01M28X3JTSXD94KEX9QRKCNEJK
Canonical slug
worldview-2-deb-41743

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.