GRUS-3A

NORAD 69885· COSPAR 2026-156S· Active satellite· Other / Unclassified· SSO

Launch

Launched on Jul 7, 2026 from Space Launch Complex 4E, United States of America aboard a Falcon 9 Block 5.

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Transporter 17 (Dedicated SSO Rideshare) →

Live · TLE epoch 2026-09-08 16:10 UTC

Orbit class

SSO — Sun-Synchronous (LEO at 96–102° inclination)

Operator

JAXA

Country

Japan

Manufacturer

—

Launched

Jul 7, 2026

Mass

—

Apogee

600 km

Perigee

594 km

Inclination

97.74°

Period

1.61 h

Altitude history

Apogee and perigee for GRUS-3A across 50 days of archived orbital elements (33 element sets, one per day).

Trend

Stable

Change

-0.3 km

Rate

-0.01 km/day

Now

594 × 600 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

60 other catalogued objects still in orbit from launch 2026-156 (Falcon 9 Block 5 | Transporter 17 (Dedicated SSO Rideshare)).

CAS500-4 · 69869
ICEYE-X80 · 69893
GRUS-3F · 69894
MIKROGLOB-1 (PIRX-1) · 69895
BRO-31 · 69896
TRANSPORTER-17 OBJECT AE · 69897
GRUS-3E · 69898
FOSSASAT-2E26 · 69899
TRANSPORTER-17 OBJECT AH · 69900
R5-S9 · 69901
CUBY-1 · 69902
BALKAN-3 · 69903
TRANSPORTER-17 OBJECT AM · 69904
LEMUR-2-ALEX-FULTON · 69905
TOM-3 · 69906
CUBY-5 · 69907
MISR-D 1 · 69908
TRANSPORTER-17 OBJECT AS · 69909
LEMUR-2-DELOITTE-5 · 69910
TRANSPORTER-17 OBJECT AU · 69911
MARMOTSAT · 69912
TRANSPORTER-17 OBJECT AW · 69913
TOM-2 · 69914
MISR-D 2 · 69915

…and 36 more from this launch.

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