CORAL
NORAD 67684· COSPAR 1998-067YA· ISS / Science· LEO
Launch
Launched on Nov 20, 1998 from 81/23 (81L), Kazakhstan aboard a Proton-K.
Proton | Zarya →No longer in orbit
CORAL reentered Earth's atmosphere on Aug 1, 2026. The orbit below is the last tracked element set, shown for reference — it is not a current position.
Last tracked · TLE epoch 2026-07-31 14:54 UTC
Orbit class
LEO — Low Earth Orbit (circular, < 2,000 km)
Operator
ASI
Country
Italy
Manufacturer
—
Launched
Nov 20, 1998
Reentered
Aug 1, 2026
Mass
—
Apogee
202 km
Perigee
184 km
Inclination
51.60°
Period
88.2 min
Altitude history
Apogee and perigee for CORAL across 64 days of archived orbital elements (66 element sets, one per day).
Trend
Decaying
Change
-174.9 km
Rate
-2.73 km/day
Now
184 × 202 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
15 other catalogued objects still in orbit from launch 1998-067 (Proton | Zarya).
- ISS (ZARYA) · 25544
- HRC MONOBLOCK CAMERA · 66052
- DUPLEX · 66906
- KNACKSAT-2 · 67683
- GXIBA-1 · 67685
- UITMSAT-2 · 67686
- LEOPARD · 67687
- HMU-SAT2 · 67688
- HOKUSHIN-1 · 69648
- ISS OBJECT YJ · 69794
- PROVES-ELECTRA · 69795
- ISS OBJECT YL · 69796
- ISS OBJECT YM · 69797
- ISS OBJECT YN · 69798
- ISS OBJECT YP · 69799
Sources & further reading
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