Satellite · NORAD 9601 · COSPAR 1976-120A
COSMOS 880
- Operator Russian Ministry of Defence
- Constellation Kosmos (Russian military / government)
- Country Russia
Altitude now
—
object decayed
Velocity
—
Inclination
65.79°
Period
88.6 min
88.6 min
Perigee
192km
Apogee
214km
orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file — decayed 31 Aug 1991.· Metadata updated 6 d ago
Live position
Live position
Live position unavailable — this object re-entered the atmosphere on 31 Aug 1991 and is no longer tracked.
Mission
Mission & classification
- Mission type derived
- Military
- Object type
- Payload
- SATCAT ops status
- Decayed [D]
- Radar cross-section
- 1.7 m²
- Constellation membership derived
- Kosmos (Russian military / government) via name_pattern
CelesTrak groups
Not listed in any CelesTrak group.
Aliases
- COSMOS 880Celestrak 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
- 09 Dec 1976
- COSPAR launch id
- 1976-120
- Launch site
- Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Objects from the same launch · 40+
- SL-8 DEB9605DebrisDecayed
- COSMOS 880 DEB11178DebrisDecayed
- COSMOS 880 DEB11179DebrisDecayed
- COSMOS 880 DEB11180DebrisDecayed
- COSMOS 880 DEB11181DebrisDecayed
- COSMOS 880 DEB11182DebrisDecayed
- COSMOS 880 DEB11183DebrisDecayed
- COSMOS 880 DEB11184DebrisDecayed
- COSMOS 880 DEB11185DebrisDecayed
- COSMOS 880 DEB11186DebrisDecayed
- COSMOS 880 DEB11187DebrisDecayed
- COSMOS 880 DEB11188DebrisDecayed
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
- 9601
- COSPAR / international designator
- 1976-120A
- SatelliteIndex id
- sat_01M28X3JMHCACQ7Z24X98DZ12R
- Canonical slug
- cosmos-880-9601
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.