Debris object · NORAD 18488 · COSPAR 1968-097EL
COSMOS 252 DEB
- Operator Commonwealth of Independent States (former USSR)
- Constellation —
- Country Russia
Altitude now
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object decayed
Velocity
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Inclination
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Period
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Perigee
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Apogee
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orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file — decayed 19 Jul 1990.· Metadata updated 15 h ago
Live position
Live position
Live position unavailable — this object re-entered the atmosphere on 19 Jul 1990 and is no longer tracked.
Mission
Mission & classification
- Mission type derived
- Debris
- Object type
- Debris
- SATCAT ops status
- Decayed [D]
- Radar cross-section
- 3.6 m²
CelesTrak groups
Not listed in any CelesTrak group.
Aliases
- COSMOS 252 DEBCelestrak Satcat
Ownership
Operator & country
- Operator
- —
- SATCAT owner code
- CIS · Commonwealth of Independent States (former USSR)
- Country
- Russia RU
Launch
Launch
- Launch date
- 01 Nov 1968
- COSPAR launch id
- 1968-097
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome (Tyuratam)
Objects from the same launch · 40+
- COSMOS 252 DEB3549DebrisInactive
- COSMOS 252 DEB3550DebrisDecayed
- COSMOS 252 DEB3551DebrisInactive
- COSMOS 252 DEB3552DebrisDecayed
- COSMOS 252 DEB3553DebrisDecayed
- COSMOS 252 DEB3554DebrisInactive
- COSMOS 252 DEB3555DebrisInactive
- COSMOS 252 DEB3556DebrisDecayed
- COSMOS 252 DEB3557DebrisInactive
- COSMOS 252 DEB3558DebrisDecayed
- COSMOS 252 DEB3559DebrisInactive
- COSMOS 252 DEB3560DebrisDecayed
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
- 18488
- COSPAR / international designator
- 1968-097EL
- SatelliteIndex id
- sat_01M28X3JP2YGF4X52XDJAV57GZ
- Canonical slug
- cosmos-252-deb-18488
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.