Debris object · NORAD 6133 · COSPAR 1972-054J
COSMOS 501 DEB
- Operator Commonwealth of Independent States (former USSR)
- Constellation —
- Country Russia
Altitude now
—
object decayed
Velocity
—
Inclination
48.47°
Period
96.8 min
96.8 min
Perigee
215km
Apogee
998km
orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file — decayed 18 Sept 1972.· Metadata updated 9 h ago
Live position
Live position
Live position unavailable — this object re-entered the atmosphere on 18 Sept 1972 and is no longer tracked.
Mission
Mission & classification
- Mission type derived
- Debris
- Object type
- Debris
- SATCAT ops status
- Decayed [D]
- Radar cross-section
- —
CelesTrak groups
Not listed in any CelesTrak group.
Aliases
- COSMOS 501 DEBCelestrak Satcat
Ownership
Operator & country
- Operator
- —
- SATCAT owner code
- CIS · Commonwealth of Independent States (former USSR)
- Country
- Russia RU
Launch
Launch
- Launch date
- 12 Jul 1972
- COSPAR launch id
- 1972-054
- Launch site
- Kapustin Yar Missile and Space Complex
Objects from the same launch · 8
- COSMOS 501 DEB6103DebrisDecayed
- COSMOS 501 DEB6104DebrisDecayed
- COSMOS 501 DEB6107DebrisDecayed
- COSMOS 501 DEB6108DebrisDecayed
- COSMOS 501 DEB6109DebrisDecayed
- COSMOS 501 DEB6110DebrisDecayed
- COSMOS 5016099PayloadDecayed
- SL-7 R/B6100Rocket 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
- 6133
- COSPAR / international designator
- 1972-054J
- SatelliteIndex id
- sat_01M28X3JKBHMHY1XM6QQDN5F3G
- Canonical slug
- cosmos-501-deb-6133
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.