Satellite · NORAD 7696 · COSPAR 1975-019A
COSMOS 720
- Operator Russian Ministry of Defence
- Constellation Kosmos (Russian military / government)
- Country Russia
Altitude now
—
object decayed
Velocity
—
Inclination
62.83°
Period
89.1 min
89.1 min
Perigee
181km
Apogee
280km
orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file — decayed 03 Apr 1975.· Metadata updated 7 d ago
Live position
Live position
Live position unavailable — this object re-entered the atmosphere on 03 Apr 1975 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 720Celestrak 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
- 21 Mar 1975
- COSPAR launch id
- 1975-019
- Launch site
- Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Objects from the same launch · 8
- SL-4 DEB7698DebrisDecayed
- SL-4 DEB7699DebrisDecayed
- SL-4 DEB7700DebrisDecayed
- COSMOS 720 DEB7717DebrisDecayed
- COSMOS 720 DEB7719DebrisDecayed
- COSMOS 720 DEB7725DebrisDecayed
- COSMOS 720 DEB7726DebrisDecayed
- SL-4 R/B7697Rocket 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
- 7696
- COSPAR / international designator
- 1975-019A
- SatelliteIndex id
- sat_01M28X3JKMDMHBV4E8EWEVX2R9
- Canonical slug
- cosmos-720-7696
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.