Satellite · NORAD 12303 · COSPAR 1981-016A
COSMOS 1247
- Operator Russian Ministry of Defence
- Constellation Kosmos (Russian military / government)
- Country Russia
Altitude now
—
no element set
Velocity
—
Inclination
69.31°
Period
11.9 h
711.2 min
Perigee
3,625km
Apogee
36,402km
orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file.· Metadata updated 9 h ago
Live position
Live position
Live position unavailable — no public orbital element set exists for this object (it may be classified, untracked or too small to catalogue).
Mission
Mission & classification
- Mission type derived
- Military
- Object type
- Payload
- Radar cross-section
- 6.2 m²
- Constellation membership derived
- Kosmos (Russian military / government) via name_pattern
CelesTrak groups
Not listed in any CelesTrak group.
Aliases
- COSMOS 1247Celestrak 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
- 19 Feb 1981
- COSPAR launch id
- 1981-016
- Launch site
- Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Objects from the same launch · 11
- SL-6 PLAT12305DebrisDecayed
- SL-6 DEB12306DebrisDecayed
- COSMOS 1247 DEB12984DebrisInactive
- COSMOS 1247 DEB12985DebrisDecayed
- COSMOS 1247 DEB12992DebrisInactive
- COSMOS 1247 DEB26786DebrisInactive
- COSMOS 1247 DEB28269DebrisInactive
- COSMOS 1247 DEB28270DebrisInactive
- COSMOS 1247 DEB48263DebrisInactive
- SL-6 R/B(1)12304Rocket bodyDecayed
- SL-6 R/B(2)12311Rocket bodyInactive
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
- 12303
- COSPAR / international designator
- 1981-016A
- SatelliteIndex id
- sat_01M28X3JN02E0SDVFV2PJHB7R1
- Canonical slug
- cosmos-1247-12303
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.