Debris object · NORAD 12073 · COSPAR 1980-090C
COSMOS 1221 DEB
- Operator Commonwealth of Independent States (former USSR)
- Constellation —
- Country Russia
Altitude now
—
object decayed
Velocity
—
Inclination
72.85°
Period
87.0 min
87.0 min
Perigee
118km
Apogee
135km
orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file — decayed 14 Apr 1981.· Metadata updated 10 h ago
Live position
Live position
Live position unavailable — this object re-entered the atmosphere on 14 Apr 1981 and is no longer tracked.
Mission
Mission & classification
- Mission type derived
- Debris
- Object type
- Debris
- SATCAT ops status
- Decayed [D]
- Radar cross-section
- 3.4 m²
CelesTrak groups
Not listed in any CelesTrak group.
Aliases
- COSMOS 1221 DEBCelestrak Satcat
Ownership
Operator & country
- Operator
- —
- SATCAT owner code
- CIS · Commonwealth of Independent States (former USSR)
- Country
- Russia RU
Launch
Launch
- Launch date
- 12 Nov 1980
- COSPAR launch id
- 1980-090
- Launch site
- Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Objects from the same launch · 4
- COSMOS 1221 DEB12076DebrisDecayed
- COSMOS 1221 DEB12083DebrisDecayed
- COSMOS 122112058PayloadDecayed
- SL-4 R/B12059Rocket 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
- 12073
- COSPAR / international designator
- 1980-090C
- SatelliteIndex id
- sat_01M28X3JMZQ00MJQ2SDXS5TEST
- Canonical slug
- cosmos-1221-deb-12073
Orbit class, mission type and constellation membership are derived by SatelliteIndex (Debris) — see the methodology. Positions are propagated estimates, not tracking measurements; never use them for conjunction assessment.