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Satellite · NORAD 10361 · COSPAR 1977-090A

COSMOS 954

DecayedPayloadLEOMilitary derived

Altitude now

—

object decayed

Velocity

—

Inclination

64.95°

Period

87.4 min

87.4 min

Perigee

142km

Apogee

154km

orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file — decayed 24 Jan 1978.· Metadata updated 18 h ago

Live position

Live position

Live position unavailable — this object re-entered the atmosphere on 24 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
—
Constellation membership derived
Kosmos (Russian military / government) via name_pattern

CelesTrak groups

Not listed in any CelesTrak group.

Aliases

  • COSMOS 954Celestrak 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 page →
Launch date
18 Sept 1977
COSPAR launch id
1977-090
Launch site
Baikonur Cosmodrome (Tyuratam)

Objects from the same launch

No other catalogued object is linked to this launch.

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

UN Register of Objects Launched into Outer Space (UNOOSA) — connector planned, not yet ingested; registration unavailable

Transparency

Sources & provenance

All sources →

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

All 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
10361
COSPAR / international designator
1977-090A
SatelliteIndex id
sat_01M28X3JMN5K3TYBWDNRY86WP5
Canonical slug
cosmos-954-10361

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.