Satellite · NORAD 12631 · COSPAR 1981-072A
COSMOS 1286
- Operator Russian Ministry of Defence
- Constellation Kosmos (Russian military / government)
- Country Russia
Altitude now
—
object decayed
Velocity
—
Inclination
64.99°
Period
88.9 min
88.9 min
Perigee
208km
Apogee
227km
orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file — decayed 16 Oct 1982.· Metadata updated 16 h ago
Live position
Live position
Live position unavailable — this object re-entered the atmosphere on 16 Oct 1982 and is no longer tracked.
Mission
Mission & classification
- Mission type derived
- Military
- Object type
- Payload
- SATCAT ops status
- Decayed [D]
- Radar cross-section
- 31.7 m²
- Constellation membership derived
- Kosmos (Russian military / government) via name_pattern
CelesTrak groups
Not listed in any CelesTrak group.
Aliases
- COSMOS 1286Celestrak 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
- 04 Aug 1981
- COSPAR launch id
- 1981-072
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome (Tyuratam)
Objects from the same launch · 2
- COSMOS 1286 DEB13601DebrisDecayed
- SL-11 R/B12632Rocket 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
- 12631
- COSPAR / international designator
- 1981-072A
- SatelliteIndex id
- sat_01M28X3JN2YK4JBREB6XY6WG66
- Canonical slug
- cosmos-1286-12631
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.