Satellite · NORAD 5551 · COSPAR 1971-086E
COSMOS 448
- Operator Russian Ministry of Defence
- Constellation Kosmos (Russian military / government)
- Country Russia
Altitude now
—
no element set
Velocity
—
Inclination
74.03°
Period
115.5 min
115.5 min
Perigee
1,440km
Apogee
1,516km
orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file.· Metadata updated 17 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
- Military
- Object type
- Payload
- Radar cross-section
- 0.7 m²
- Constellation membership derived
- Kosmos (Russian military / government) via name_pattern
CelesTrak groups
Not listed in any CelesTrak group.
Aliases
- COSMOS 448Celestrak 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
- 13 Oct 1971
- COSPAR launch id
- 1971-086
- Launch site
- Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Objects from the same launch · 10
- SL-8 DEB56997DebrisInactive
- SL-8 DEB56998DebrisInactive
- COSMOS 4445547PayloadUnknown
- COSMOS 4455548PayloadUnknown
- COSMOS 4465549PayloadUnknown
- COSMOS 4475550PayloadUnknown
- COSMOS 4495552PayloadUnknown
- COSMOS 4505553PayloadUnknown
- COSMOS 4515554PayloadUnknown
- SL-8 R/B5555Rocket bodyInactive
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
- 5551
- COSPAR / international designator
- 1971-086E
- SatelliteIndex id
- sat_01M28X3JK8C03V83V7RQ97CY4G
- Canonical slug
- cosmos-448-5551
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.