Debris object · NORAD 3555 · COSPAR 1968-097H
COSMOS 252 DEB
- Operator Commonwealth of Independent States (former USSR)
- Constellation —
- Country Russia
Altitude now
—
no element set
Velocity
—
Inclination
62.32°
Period
110.1 min
110.1 min
Perigee
549km
Apogee
1,908km
orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file.· Metadata updated 15 h ago
Live position
Live position
Live position unavailable — no public orbital element set exists for this object (it may be classified, untracked or too small to catalogue).
Mission
Mission & classification
- Mission type derived
- Debris
- Object type
- Debris
- Radar cross-section
- 0.4 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 DEB3556DebrisDecayed
- COSMOS 252 DEB3557DebrisInactive
- COSMOS 252 DEB3558DebrisDecayed
- COSMOS 252 DEB3559DebrisInactive
- COSMOS 252 DEB3560DebrisDecayed
- COSMOS 252 DEB3561DebrisInactive
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
- 3555
- COSPAR / international designator
- 1968-097H
- SatelliteIndex id
- sat_01M28X3JJW9PR81WW7TEHBCEYS
- Canonical slug
- cosmos-252-deb-3555
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.