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Debris object · NORAD 19591 · COSPAR 1988-088J

COSMOS 1973 DEB

DecayedDebrisLEODebris derived
  • Operator Commonwealth of Independent States (former USSR)
  • Constellation —
  • Country Russia

Altitude now

—

object decayed

Velocity

—

Inclination

72.86°

Period

91.7 min

91.7 min

Perigee

338km

Apogee

383km

orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file — decayed 17 Dec 1988.· Metadata updated 17 h ago

Live position

Live position

Live position unavailable — this object re-entered the atmosphere on 17 Dec 1988 and is no longer tracked.

Mission

Mission & classification

Mission type derived
Debris
Object type
Debris
SATCAT ops status
Decayed [D]
Radar cross-section
1.6 m²

CelesTrak groups

Not listed in any CelesTrak group.

Aliases

  • COSMOS 1973 DEBCelestrak Satcat

Ownership

Operator & country

Operator
—
SATCAT owner code
CIS · Commonwealth of Independent States (former USSR)
Country
Russia RU

Launch

Launch

Launch page →
Launch date
22 Sept 1988
COSPAR launch id
1988-088
Launch site
Plesetsk Cosmodrome

Objects from the same launch · 8

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
19591
COSPAR / international designator
1988-088J
SatelliteIndex id
sat_01M28X3JP8CSXSG9731225A91R
Canonical slug
cosmos-1973-deb-19591

Orbit class, mission type and constellation membership are derived by SatelliteIndex (Debris) — see the methodology. Positions are propagated estimates, not tracking measurements; never use them for conjunction assessment.