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Satellite · NORAD 10904 · COSPAR 1978-050A

COSMOS 1009

DecayedPayloadLEOMilitary derived

Altitude now

—

object decayed

Velocity

—

Inclination

65.87°

Period

108.6 min

108.6 min

Perigee

965km

Apogee

1,362km

orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file — decayed 19 May 1978.· Metadata updated 2 d ago

Live position

Live position

Live position unavailable — this object re-entered the atmosphere on 19 May 1978 and is no longer tracked.

Mission

Mission & classification

Mission type derived
Military
Object type
Payload
SATCAT ops status
Decayed [D]
Radar cross-section
—
Constellation membership derived
Kosmos (Russian military / government) via name_pattern

CelesTrak groups

Not listed in any CelesTrak group.

Aliases

  • COSMOS 1009Celestrak Satcat

Ownership

Operator & country

Operator
Russian Ministry of Defence
SATCAT owner code
CIS · Commonwealth of Independent States (former USSR)
Country
Russia RU

Launch

Launch

Launch page →
Launch date
19 May 1978
COSPAR launch id
1978-050
Launch site
Baikonur Cosmodrome (Tyuratam)

Objects from the same launch · 3

Change log

History

No changes recorded since first ingestion on 11 Sept 2026 18:54 UTC. Status, orbit class, name and ownership changes are logged here as sources are re-ingested.

Regulatory

UN registration

UN Register of Objects Launched into Outer Space (UNOOSA) — connector planned, not yet ingested; registration unavailable

Transparency

Sources & provenance

All sources →

No source is linked to this record yet — the catalogue row exists but no provenance entry has been written for it.

Field provenance

No field-level provenance recorded.

Timeline

Events

All events →

No events detected for this object yet. Launches, decays and orbit changes are generated by the derived-analytics connector.

Reference

Identifiers

NORAD catalogue number
10904
COSPAR / international designator
1978-050A
SatelliteIndex id
sat_01M28X3JMRMDZ035DSK8HQZ88K
Canonical slug
cosmos-1009-10904

Orbit class, mission type and constellation membership are derived by SatelliteIndex (Military) — see the methodology. Positions are propagated estimates, not tracking measurements; never use them for conjunction assessment.