Ephem Space-data platform · est. 2026

Debris · NORAD 27607

SL-16 R/B

Zenit-2 rocket body in a heavily populated LEO shell — one of the highest-priority active-debris-removal candidates.


§1 Vitals

OperatorRussia (defunct)
Launched2003-11-30
Approx. altitude850 km
Inclination71.0°
NORAD catalog id27607

§2 Live orbital elements

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/27607

curl -s https://ephem-api.YOUR-SUBDOMAIN.workers.dev/v1/objects/27607 \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer ek_live_..."

Cached 1 h. Backed by the CelesTrak active catalog, refreshed nightly.

§3 What Ephem does with this object

SL-16 R/B 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).


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