Re-entered 1971-11-16Debris

DELTA 1 DEB

NORAD: 5566
COSPAR: 1971-091B

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Is it working?

Sources agree

Source	What it says	Date
CelesTrak SATCAT	Decayed or deorbited	1971-11-16
GCAT (J. McDowell)	Re-entered	1971-11-18

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Spacecraft

Owner: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

From GCAT by Jonathan McDowell (CC BY 4.0), record S05566, checked 2026-11-05. About this source

Launch

Launch date: 1971-10-21
Rocket: Thor Delta N6
Flight: ITOS B
Mission name: ITOS B
Launch site: V, SLC2E
Launched by: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Rocket performance: Failure
Launch designator: 1971-091

From the GCAT launch log, launch 1971-091, checked 2026-11-05. About this source

Catalogue record

Object type: Debris
Owner code: US
Launch date: 1971-10-21
Re-entered: 1971-11-16
Period: 89.8 min
Inclination: 102.97°
Apogee: 421 km
Perigee: 114 km

From CelesTrak SATCAT, checked 2026-11-05. About this source

Where it came from

Parent object: ITOS-B & DELTA 1 R/B (NORAD 5565)

The object this one was attached to at launch, or broke off from, as GCAT records it.

Everything from this launch

Debris4 in total, 0 still in orbit
Payload1 in total, 0 still in orbit