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Satellite · NORAD 17566 · COSPAR 1987-024A

COSMOS 1825

DecayedPayloadLEOMilitary derived

Altitude now

—

object decayed

Velocity

—

Inclination

82.45°

Period

87.2 min

87.2 min

Perigee

128km

Apogee

146km

orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file — decayed 19 May 2025.· Metadata updated 20 h ago

Live position

Live position

Live position unavailable — this object re-entered the atmosphere on 19 May 2025 and is no longer tracked.

Mission

Mission & classification

Mission type derived
Military
Object type
Payload
SATCAT ops status
Decayed [D]
Radar cross-section
8.2 m²
Constellation membership derived
Kosmos (Russian military / government) via name_pattern

CelesTrak groups

Not listed in any CelesTrak group.

Aliases

  • COSMOS 1825Celestrak 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 page →
Launch date
03 Mar 1987
COSPAR launch id
1987-024
Launch site
Plesetsk Cosmodrome

Objects from the same launch · 1

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

UN Register of Objects Launched into Outer Space (UNOOSA) — connector planned, not yet ingested; registration unavailable

Transparency

Sources & provenance

All sources →

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

All 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
17566
COSPAR / international designator
1987-024A
SatelliteIndex id
sat_01M28X3JNXJX8SFDYNBCTR4DGY
Canonical slug
cosmos-1825-17566

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.