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OAR-0023972 UNKNOWN DEBRIS

ARIANE 2 DEB

launched 1988-10-28 from FRGUI · LEO regime · owner code FR
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Identity
OAR Asset IDOAR-0023972
Object nameARIANE 2 DEB
NORAD catalogue no.23966
COSPAR / Int'l designator1988-098F
Object typeDEBRIS
Owner codeFR
StatusUNKNOWN
Disposal—
Decay watch—
Owner / launching orgFrance (France) nation
OrbitLEO
Regime (SATCAT summary)
LEO
Period
101.19 min
Apogee (alt)
1460 km
Perigee (alt)
170 km
Inclination
3.43°
Element set
none ingested (object may be decayed or inactive)
Launch
Launch date1988-10-28
Launch siteFRGUI
Decay date—
Operator attribution (GCAT)
Operator (GCAT)Arianespace, Inc. business
Paris:Evry, France (F)
Manufacturer—
GCAT identifiersS23966 · 1988-098F (D P)
Name in GCATdeb Ariane V26 (catalogue name differs)
Reconciliationmatched by satcat_number · confirmed
Attribution from GCAT (J. McDowell), ingested under CC-BY-4.0 and shown alongside — not in place of — the catalogue owner above. GCAT reflects one researcher's editorial synthesis of public sources; treat it as evidence of the operator, not as a determination. McDowell, J., General Catalog of Artificial Space Objects (GCAT), planet4589.org/space/gcat, CC-BY-4.0
Succession of responsibility
Organisation phaseFromToState
Arianespace, Inc. AE ← at this object's attribution 1980-03-26 2017-03 F
Arianespace SAS AESP CURRENT 2017-03 — F
Phases of the same organisation (GCAT UCode AE) through renames, acquisitions and restructurings. Continuity of the operating entity does not by itself transfer liability, which under Liability Convention Art. II–III attaches to the launching state.
Launching State attributionJOINT & SEVERAL
A State qualifies if it launches, procures the launch, or the launch occurs from its territory or facility. Status is fixed at launch and does not transfer with the operator.
LimbStateTierBasis
Launch agency FR T3 DERIVED Launch conducted by Arianespace, Inc. (FR)
Outer Space Treaty Art. VII, Liability Convention Art. I(c) and Registration Convention Art. I(a) — State which launches a space object
Facility FR T3 DERIVED Launched from the Centre Spatial Guyanais, Kourou — a facility of France (CNES-operated national range)
Outer Space Treaty Art. VII, Liability Convention Art. I(c) and Registration Convention Art. I(a) — State from whose facility an object is launched
Territory FR T3 DERIVED Launch site Europe's Spaceport, Kourou, French Guiana is on the territory of FR — OAR launch-site mapping (CelesTrak SATCAT site code)
Outer Space Treaty Art. VII, Liability Convention Art. I(c) and Registration Convention Art. I(a) — State from whose territory an object is launched
Procurement FR T4 INFERRED Inferred from owner nationality: Arianespace, Inc. (FR)
Outer Space Treaty Art. VII, Liability Convention Art. I(c) and Registration Convention Art. I(a) — State which procures the launching (INFERRED, not established)
A State qualifies if it launches, procures the launching, or the launch is from its territory or facility — more than one State can qualify for one object, and launching States are jointly and severally liable (Liability Convention Art. V). Launching-State status is fixed at launch and does not transfer when operators change. Tier 4 claims are inferred from owner nationality and are the weakest: rideshare procurement through integrators is genuinely contestable.
Aliases
Every identifier that resolves to this OAR ID.
COSPAR1988-098F
NAMEARIANE 2 DEB
NORAD23966
Record history
Logged events for this record — from the ingest log and reported lifecycle events, not a reconstruction.
2026-09-30T11:20:10.278Z
Record last updated by ingest
2026-07-02T14:43:38.368Z
Object catalogued · OAR ID issued