Satellite · NORAD 1269 · COSPAR 1965-020C
COSMOS 63
- Operator Russian Ministry of Defence
- Constellation Kosmos (Russian military / government)
- Country Russia
Altitude now
—
object decayed
Velocity
—
Inclination
55.93°
Period
88.1 min
88.1 min
Perigee
125km
Apogee
240km
orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file — decayed 04 Nov 1967.· Metadata updated 16 h ago
Live position
Live position
Live position unavailable — this object re-entered the atmosphere on 04 Nov 1967 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 63Celestrak 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
- 15 Mar 1965
- COSPAR launch id
- 1965-020
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome (Tyuratam)
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- SL-8 DEB1335DebrisInactive
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- SL-8 DEB1337DebrisDecayed
- SL-8 DEB1338DebrisDecayed
- SL-8 DEB1339DebrisDecayed
- SL-8 DEB1340DebrisDecayed
- SL-8 DEB1341DebrisDecayed
- SL-8 DEB1342DebrisDecayed
- SL-8 DEB1343DebrisDecayed
- SL-8 DEB1344DebrisDecayed
- SL-8 DEB1345DebrisDecayed
- SL-8 DEB1346DebrisDecayed
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
- 1269
- COSPAR / international designator
- 1965-020C
- SatelliteIndex id
- sat_01M28X3JJF85A23QDAAY72GYHG
- Canonical slug
- cosmos-63-1269
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.