Satellite · NORAD 29247 · COSPAR 2006-026A
COSMOS 2421
- Operator Russian Ministry of Defence
- Constellation Kosmos (Russian military / government)
- Country Russia
Altitude now
—
object decayed
Velocity
—
Inclination
65.02°
Period
87.6 min
87.6 min
Perigee
149km
Apogee
157km
orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file — decayed 19 Aug 2010.· Metadata updated 9 h ago
Live position
Live position
Live position unavailable — this object re-entered the atmosphere on 19 Aug 2010 and is no longer tracked.
Mission
Mission & classification
- Mission type derived
- Military
- Object type
- Payload
- SATCAT ops status
- Decayed [D]
- Radar cross-section
- 9.3 m²
- Constellation membership derived
- Kosmos (Russian military / government) via name_pattern
CelesTrak groups
Not listed in any CelesTrak group.
Aliases
- COSMOS 2421Celestrak 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
- 25 Jun 2006
- COSPAR launch id
- 2006-026
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome (Tyuratam)
Objects from the same launch · 40+
- COSMOS 2421 DEB32710DebrisDecayed
- COSMOS 2421 DEB32715DebrisDecayed
- COSMOS 2421 DEB32716DebrisDecayed
- COSMOS 2421 DEB32717DebrisDecayed
- COSMOS 2421 DEB32718DebrisDecayed
- COSMOS 2421 DEB32719DebrisDecayed
- COSMOS 2421 DEB32720DebrisDecayed
- COSMOS 2421 DEB32721DebrisDecayed
- COSMOS 2421 DEB32722DebrisDecayed
- COSMOS 2421 DEB32723DebrisDecayed
- COSMOS 2421 DEB32724DebrisDecayed
- COSMOS 2421 DEB32725DebrisDecayed
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
- 29247
- COSPAR / international designator
- 2006-026A
- SatelliteIndex id
- sat_01M28X3JQXR6FFEMCFY4ZEC0BV
- Canonical slug
- cosmos-2421-29247
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.