Satellite · NORAD 11638 · COSPAR 1979-102A
COSMOS 1147
- Operator Russian Ministry of Defence
- Constellation Kosmos (Russian military / government)
- Country Russia
Altitude now
—
object decayed
Velocity
—
Inclination
72.87°
Period
91.7 min
91.7 min
Perigee
297km
Apogee
414km
orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file — decayed 26 Dec 1979.· Metadata updated 11 h ago
Live position
Live position
Live position unavailable — this object re-entered the atmosphere on 26 Dec 1979 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 1147Celestrak 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 date
- 12 Dec 1979
- COSPAR launch id
- 1979-102
- Launch site
- Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Objects from the same launch · 3
- COSMOS 1147 DEB11646DebrisDecayed
- COSMOS 1147 DEB11647DebrisDecayed
- SL-4 R/B11639Rocket bodyDecayed
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
Transparency
Sources & provenance
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
No events detected for this object yet. Launches, decays and orbit changes are generated by the derived-analytics connector.
Reference
Identifiers
- NORAD catalogue number
- 11638
- COSPAR / international designator
- 1979-102A
- SatelliteIndex id
- sat_01M28X3JMW3D5T5KMSDN1K8AP4
- Canonical slug
- cosmos-1147-11638
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.