Satellite · NORAD 8658 · COSPAR 1976-012A
COSMOS 801
- Operator Russian Ministry of Defence
- Constellation Kosmos (Russian military / government)
- Country Russia
Altitude now
—
object decayed
Velocity
—
Inclination
70.93°
Period
87.7 min
87.7 min
Perigee
149km
Apogee
174km
orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file — decayed 05 Jan 1978.· Metadata updated 6 d ago
Live position
Live position
Live position unavailable — this object re-entered the atmosphere on 05 Jan 1978 and is no longer tracked.
Mission
Mission & classification
- Mission type derived
- Military
- Object type
- Payload
- SATCAT ops status
- Decayed [D]
- Radar cross-section
- 2.9 m²
- Constellation membership derived
- Kosmos (Russian military / government) via name_pattern
CelesTrak groups
Not listed in any CelesTrak group.
Aliases
- COSMOS 801Celestrak 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
- 05 Feb 1976
- COSPAR launch id
- 1976-012
- Launch site
- Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Objects from the same launch · 16
- SL-7 DEB8660DebrisDecayed
- SL-7 DEB8661DebrisDecayed
- SL-7 DEB8662DebrisDecayed
- SL-7 DEB8663DebrisDecayed
- SL-7 DEB8664DebrisDecayed
- SL-7 DEB8665DebrisDecayed
- SL-7 DEB8666DebrisDecayed
- SL-7 DEB8667DebrisDecayed
- SL-7 DEB8668DebrisDecayed
- SL-7 DEB8669DebrisDecayed
- SL-7 DEB8670DebrisDecayed
- SL-7 DEB8671DebrisDecayed
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
- 8658
- COSPAR / international designator
- 1976-012A
- SatelliteIndex id
- sat_01M28X3JMBK9PSYR3G806J1WGY
- Canonical slug
- cosmos-801-8658
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.