Satellite · NORAD 5938 · COSPAR 1972-028A
COSMOS 485
- Operator Russian Ministry of Defence
- Constellation Kosmos (Russian military / government)
- Country Russia
Altitude now
—
object decayed
Velocity
—
Inclination
70.95°
Period
87.8 min
87.8 min
Perigee
156km
Apogee
174km
orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file — decayed 30 Aug 1972.· Metadata updated 8 d ago
Live position
Live position
Live position unavailable — this object re-entered the atmosphere on 30 Aug 1972 and is no longer tracked.
Mission
Mission & classification
- Mission type derived
- Military
- Object type
- Payload
- SATCAT ops status
- Decayed [D]
- Radar cross-section
- —
- Constellation membership derived
- Kosmos (Russian military / government) via name_pattern
CelesTrak groups
Not listed in any CelesTrak group.
Aliases
- COSMOS 485Celestrak 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
- 11 Apr 1972
- COSPAR launch id
- 1972-028
- Launch site
- Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Objects from the same launch · 1
- SL-7 R/B5939Rocket 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
- 5938
- COSPAR / international designator
- 1972-028A
- SatelliteIndex id
- sat_01M28X3JKA8VF1KS5WYH42EPWY
- Canonical slug
- cosmos-485-5938
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.