Debris · NORAD 22824
Another SL-16 upper stage. Together with 27607 these are the classic conjunction-alert flagged objects on public radar sites.
| Operator | Russia (defunct) |
| Launched | 1993-08-30 |
| Approx. altitude | 840 km |
| Inclination | 71.0° |
| NORAD catalog id | 22824 |
The current two-line element set for this object is served from Ephem's cache at:
GET · https://ephem-api.YOUR-SUBDOMAIN.workers.dev/v1/objects/22824
curl -s https://ephem-api.YOUR-SUBDOMAIN.workers.dev/v1/objects/22824 \
-H "Authorization: Bearer ek_live_..."Cached 1 h. Backed by the CelesTrak active catalog, refreshed nightly.
SL-16 R/B (Cosmos 2333) is included in the nightly SGP4 propagation that produces Ephem's debris density feed. Its sub-satellite point at any moment can be computed client-side from the TLE using standard SGP4 (the same code path the overhead map uses in your browser).