Satellite · NORAD 12364 · COSPAR 1981-028A
COSMOS 1260
- Operator Russian Ministry of Defence
- Constellation Kosmos (Russian military / government)
- Country Russia
Altitude now
—
object decayed
Velocity
—
Inclination
64.96°
Period
87.8 min
87.8 min
Perigee
154km
Apogee
175km
orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file — decayed 17 Mar 1990.· Metadata updated 17 h ago
Live position
Live position
Live position unavailable — this object re-entered the atmosphere on 17 Mar 1990 and is no longer tracked.
Mission
Mission & classification
- Mission type derived
- Military
- Object type
- Payload
- SATCAT ops status
- Decayed [D]
- Radar cross-section
- 34.1 m²
- Constellation membership derived
- Kosmos (Russian military / government) via name_pattern
CelesTrak groups
Not listed in any CelesTrak group.
Aliases
- COSMOS 1260Celestrak 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
- 20 Mar 1981
- COSPAR launch id
- 1981-028
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome (Tyuratam)
Objects from the same launch · 40+
- COSMOS 1260 DEB13180DebrisDecayed
- COSMOS 1260 DEB13181DebrisDecayed
- COSMOS 1260 DEB13182DebrisDecayed
- COSMOS 1260 DEB13183DebrisDecayed
- COSMOS 1260 DEB13184DebrisDecayed
- COSMOS 1260 DEB13185DebrisDecayed
- COSMOS 1260 DEB13186DebrisDecayed
- COSMOS 1260 DEB13187DebrisDecayed
- COSMOS 1260 DEB13188DebrisDecayed
- COSMOS 1260 DEB13189DebrisDecayed
- COSMOS 1260 DEB13190DebrisDecayed
- COSMOS 1260 DEB13191DebrisDecayed
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
- 12364
- COSPAR / international designator
- 1981-028A
- SatelliteIndex id
- sat_01M28X3JN02E0SDVFV2PJHB7SY
- Canonical slug
- cosmos-1260-12364
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.