Debris object · NORAD 19630 · COSPAR 1988-097F
COSMOS 1978 DEB
- Operator Commonwealth of Independent States (former USSR)
- Constellation —
- Country Russia
Altitude now
—
object decayed
Velocity
—
Inclination
72.86°
Period
89.1 min
89.1 min
Perigee
208km
Apogee
252km
orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file — decayed 14 Nov 1988.· Metadata updated 14 h ago
Live position
Live position
Live position unavailable — this object re-entered the atmosphere on 14 Nov 1988 and is no longer tracked.
Mission
Mission & classification
- Mission type derived
- Debris
- Object type
- Debris
- SATCAT ops status
- Decayed [D]
- Radar cross-section
- —
CelesTrak groups
Not listed in any CelesTrak group.
Aliases
- COSMOS 1978 DEBCelestrak Satcat
Ownership
Operator & country
- Operator
- —
- SATCAT owner code
- CIS · Commonwealth of Independent States (former USSR)
- Country
- Russia RU
Launch
Launch
- Launch date
- 27 Oct 1988
- COSPAR launch id
- 1988-097
- Launch site
- Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Objects from the same launch · 6
- COSMOS 1978 DEB19627DebrisDecayed
- COSMOS 1978 DEB19628DebrisDecayed
- COSMOS 1978 DEB19629DebrisDecayed
- COSMOS 1978 DEB19631DebrisDecayed
- COSMOS 197819612PayloadDecayed
- SL-4 R/B19613Rocket 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
- 19630
- COSPAR / international designator
- 1988-097F
- SatelliteIndex id
- sat_01M28X3JP8CSXSG9731225A92Z
- Canonical slug
- cosmos-1978-deb-19630
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.