Satellite · NORAD 15997 · COSPAR 1985-077A
COSMOS 1678
- Operator Russian Ministry of Defence
- Constellation Kosmos (Russian military / government)
- Country Russia
Altitude now
—
object decayed
Velocity
—
Inclination
82.32°
Period
89.9 min
89.9 min
Perigee
264km
Apogee
275km
orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file — decayed 12 Sept 1985.· Metadata updated 11 h ago
Live position
Live position
Live position unavailable — this object re-entered the atmosphere on 12 Sept 1985 and is no longer tracked.
Mission
Mission & classification
- Mission type derived
- Military
- Object type
- Payload
- SATCAT ops status
- Decayed [D]
- Radar cross-section
- 25.9 m²
- Constellation membership derived
- Kosmos (Russian military / government) via name_pattern
CelesTrak groups
Not listed in any CelesTrak group.
Aliases
- COSMOS 1678Celestrak 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
- 29 Aug 1985
- COSPAR launch id
- 1985-077
- Launch site
- Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Objects from the same launch · 9
- SL-4 DEB16002DebrisDecayed
- COSMOS 1678 DEB16021DebrisDecayed
- COSMOS 1678 DEB16022DebrisDecayed
- COSMOS 1678 DEB16023DebrisDecayed
- COSMOS 1678 DEB16024DebrisDecayed
- COSMOS 1678 DEB16025DebrisDecayed
- COSMOS 1678 DEB16026DebrisDecayed
- COSMOS 1678 DEB18608DebrisInactive
- SL-4 R/B15998Rocket 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
- 15997
- COSPAR / international designator
- 1985-077A
- SatelliteIndex id
- sat_01M28X3JNMNGZEMQFW8S6D3RQK
- Canonical slug
- cosmos-1678-15997
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.