Debris object · NORAD 6469 · COSPAR 1973-021AC
COSMOS 554 DEB
- Operator Commonwealth of Independent States (former USSR)
- Constellation —
- Country Russia
Altitude now
—
object decayed
Velocity
—
Inclination
73.12°
Period
89.9 min
89.9 min
Perigee
229km
Apogee
311km
orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file — decayed 29 Jan 1974.· Metadata updated 7 d ago
Live position
Live position
Live position unavailable — this object re-entered the atmosphere on 29 Jan 1974 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 554 DEBCelestrak Satcat
Ownership
Operator & country
- Operator
- —
- SATCAT owner code
- CIS · Commonwealth of Independent States (former USSR)
- Country
- Russia RU
Launch
Launch
- Launch date
- 19 Apr 1973
- COSPAR launch id
- 1973-021
- Launch site
- Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Objects from the same launch · 40+
- SL-4 DEB6436DebrisDecayed
- COSMOS 554 DEB6442DebrisDecayed
- COSMOS 554 DEB6443DebrisDecayed
- COSMOS 554 DEB6448DebrisDecayed
- COSMOS 554 DEB6449DebrisDecayed
- COSMOS 554 DEB6450DebrisDecayed
- COSMOS 554 DEB6451DebrisDecayed
- COSMOS 554 DEB6452DebrisDecayed
- COSMOS 554 DEB6453DebrisDecayed
- COSMOS 554 DEB6454DebrisDecayed
- COSMOS 554 DEB6455DebrisDecayed
- COSMOS 554 DEB6456DebrisDecayed
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
- 6469
- COSPAR / international designator
- 1973-021AC
- SatelliteIndex id
- sat_01M28X3JKD1QY2NAG7D2X3S94R
- Canonical slug
- cosmos-554-deb-6469
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.