Satellite · NORAD 12423 · COSPAR 1981-040A
COSMOS 1268
- Operator Russian Ministry of Defence
- Constellation Kosmos (Russian military / government)
- Country Russia
Altitude now
—
object decayed
Velocity
—
Inclination
70.38°
Period
89.5 min
89.5 min
Perigee
223km
Apogee
276km
orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file — decayed 12 May 1981.· Metadata updated 19 h ago
Live position
Live position
Live position unavailable — this object re-entered the atmosphere on 12 May 1981 and is no longer tracked.
Mission
Mission & classification
- Mission type derived
- Military
- Object type
- Payload
- SATCAT ops status
- Decayed [D]
- Radar cross-section
- 32.4 m²
- Constellation membership derived
- Kosmos (Russian military / government) via name_pattern
CelesTrak groups
Not listed in any CelesTrak group.
Aliases
- COSMOS 1268Celestrak 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
- 28 Apr 1981
- COSPAR launch id
- 1981-040
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome (Tyuratam)
Objects from the same launch · 6
- COSMOS 1268 DEB12448DebrisDecayed
- COSMOS 1268 DEB12449DebrisDecayed
- COSMOS 1268 DEB12450DebrisDecayed
- COSMOS 1268 DEB12451DebrisDecayed
- COSMOS 1268 DEB12452DebrisDecayed
- SL-4 R/B12424Rocket 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
- 12423
- COSPAR / international designator
- 1981-040A
- SatelliteIndex id
- sat_01M28X3JN02E0SDVFV2PJHB7VS
- Canonical slug
- cosmos-1268-12423
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.