Satellite · NORAD 6073 · COSPAR 1972-023E
COSMOS 482 DESCENT CRAFT
- Operator Commonwealth of Independent States (former USSR)
- Constellation —
- Country Russia
Altitude now
—
object decayed
Velocity
—
Inclination
51.95°
Period
87.3 min
87.3 min
Perigee
120km
Apogee
166km
orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file — decayed 10 May 2025.· Metadata updated 6 d ago
Live position
Live position
Live position unavailable — this object re-entered the atmosphere on 10 May 2025 and is no longer tracked.
Mission
Mission & classification
- Mission type derived
- Military
- Object type
- Payload
- SATCAT ops status
- Decayed [D]
- Radar cross-section
- 0.7 m²
CelesTrak groups
Not listed in any CelesTrak group.
Aliases
- COSMOS 482 DESCENT CRAFTCelestrak Satcat
Ownership
Operator & country
- Operator
- —
- SATCAT owner code
- CIS · Commonwealth of Independent States (former USSR)
- Country
- Russia RU
Launch
Launch
- Launch date
- 31 Mar 1972
- COSPAR launch id
- 1972-023
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome (Tyuratam)
Objects from the same launch · 4
- SL-6 PLAT5921DebrisDecayed
- COSMOS 4825919PayloadDecayed
- SL-6 R/B(1)5920Rocket bodyDecayed
- SL-6 R/B(2)5923Rocket 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
- 6073
- COSPAR / international designator
- 1972-023E
- SatelliteIndex id
- sat_01M28X3JKBHMHY1XM6QQDN5F1M
- Canonical slug
- cosmos-482-descent-craft-6073
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.