ISS OBJECT YJ
Launch
Launched on Nov 20, 1998 from 81/23 (81L), Kazakhstan aboard a Proton-K.
Proton | Zarya →Live · TLE epoch 2026-09-08 10:32 UTC
Orbit class
LEO — Low Earth Orbit (circular, < 2,000 km)
Operator
—
Country
TBD
Manufacturer
—
Launched
Nov 20, 1998
Mass
—
Apogee
420 km
Perigee
409 km
Inclination
51.63°
Period
1.55 h
Altitude history
Apogee and perigee for ISS OBJECT YJ across 60 days of archived orbital elements (39 element sets, one per day).
Trend
Decaying
Change
-9.9 km
Rate
-0.17 km/day
Now
409 × 420 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
14 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
- PROVES-ELECTRA · 69795
- ISS OBJECT YL · 69796
- ISS OBJECT YM · 69797
- ISS OBJECT YN · 69798
- ISS OBJECT YP · 69799
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