Satellite · NORAD 12642 · COSPAR 1981-074G
COSMOS 1293
- Operator Russian Ministry of Defence
- Constellation Kosmos (Russian military / government)
- Country Russia
Altitude now
—
no element set
Velocity
—
Inclination
74.03°
Period
114.6 min
114.6 min
Perigee
1,408km
Apogee
1,465km
orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file.· Metadata updated 13 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
- 0.7 m²
- Constellation membership derived
- Kosmos (Russian military / government) via name_pattern
CelesTrak groups
Not listed in any CelesTrak group.
Aliases
- COSMOS 1293Celestrak 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
- 06 Aug 1981
- COSPAR launch id
- 1981-074
- Launch site
- Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Objects from the same launch · 8
- COSMOS 128712636PayloadUnknown
- COSMOS 128812637PayloadUnknown
- COSMOS 128912638PayloadUnknown
- COSMOS 129012639PayloadUnknown
- COSMOS 129112640PayloadUnknown
- COSMOS 129212641PayloadUnknown
- COSMOS 129412643PayloadUnknown
- SL-8 R/B12644Rocket 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
- 12642
- COSPAR / international designator
- 1981-074G
- SatelliteIndex id
- sat_01M28X3JN2YK4JBREB6XY6WG6H
- Canonical slug
- cosmos-1293-12642
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.