Debris object · NORAD 18913 · COSPAR 1974-066D
COSMOS 673 DEB
- Operator Commonwealth of Independent States (former USSR)
- Constellation —
- Country Russia
Altitude now
—
object decayed
Velocity
—
Inclination
81.18°
Period
89.3 min
89.3 min
Perigee
229km
Apogee
250km
orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file — decayed 27 Mar 1989.· Metadata updated 7 d ago
Live position
Live position
Live position unavailable — this object re-entered the atmosphere on 27 Mar 1989 and is no longer tracked.
Mission
Mission & classification
- Mission type derived
- Debris
- Object type
- Debris
- SATCAT ops status
- Decayed [D]
- Radar cross-section
- 0.0 m²
CelesTrak groups
Not listed in any CelesTrak group.
Aliases
- COSMOS 673 DEBCelestrak Satcat
Ownership
Operator & country
- Operator
- —
- SATCAT owner code
- CIS · Commonwealth of Independent States (former USSR)
- Country
- Russia RU
Launch
Launch
- Launch date
- 16 Aug 1974
- COSPAR launch id
- 1974-066
- Launch site
- Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Objects from the same launch · 3
- SL-3 DEB8424DebrisDecayed
- COSMOS 6737417PayloadDecayed
- SL-3 R/B7418Rocket 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
- 18913
- COSPAR / international designator
- 1974-066D
- SatelliteIndex id
- sat_01M28X3JP4VJDRKDMER8SWBQG7
- Canonical slug
- cosmos-673-deb-18913
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.