SAUDISAT 1C (SO-50)

NORAD 27607· COSPAR 2002-058C· Active satellite· CubeSats & Tech Demos· LEO

Launch

Launched on Dec 20, 2002 from 109/95, Kazakhstan aboard a Dnepr 1.

Dnepr | AATiS-OSCAR-49 →

Live · TLE epoch 2026-09-10 15:42 UTC

Orbit class

LEO — Low Earth Orbit (circular, < 2,000 km)

Operator

KACST

Country

Saudi Arabia

Manufacturer

—

Launched

Dec 20, 2002

Mass

10 kg

Apogee

675 km

Perigee

574 km

Inclination

64.55°

Period

1.62 h

Summary from Wikipedia (CC-BY-SA 4.0)

Saudi-OSCAR 50 is a Saudi Arabian amateur radio satellite that was launched on 20 December 2002 by the King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology.

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Altitude history

Apogee and perigee for SAUDISAT 1C (SO-50) across 106 days of archived orbital elements (107 element sets, one per day).

Trend

Stable

Change

-0.6 km

Rate

-0.01 km/day

Now

574 × 675 km

Apogee Perigee

Derived from our own archive of CelesTrak orbital elements, sampled every 3 hours. Short windows show drag and station-keeping; they are not a reentry prediction.

Launched with

2 other catalogued objects still in orbit from launch 2002-058 (Dnepr | AATiS-OSCAR-49).

LATINSAT B · 27606
LATINSAT A · 27612

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