International Designator (COSPAR ID) of a space object

ID cospar_id

DatatypeNot PIIidentifierDraft

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International identifier of an artificial object in space, assigned by United States Space Command together with the satellite catalog number. It is the launch year, a hyphen, the three-digit number of the launch in that year and one to three letters for the piece of that launch. In TLE files the century and the hyphen are left out. The modern scheme was introduced in 1963 and replaced Greek-letter designations.

Categories: Scientific
Countries: Global (not tied to a country)
Languages: Common to most languages
Wikidata: P247
Quality: 85/100 · missing: translation, detector coverage
Metacrafter rules: no detection rule yet
Supported by tools: no tool record lists this type yet

Regular expression

^(?:19[5-9]\d|20\d{2})-\d{3}[A-Z]{1,3}$

Python re syntax.

Examples

Value	Description
1990-037A	Space Shuttle Discovery, mission STS-31
1990-037B	Hubble Space Telescope
1970-060A	Venera 7
1990-37A invalid	The launch number must have three digits

Sources

wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Designator
wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P247

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