Satellite · NORAD 10599 · COSPAR 1978-007A
COSMOS 985
- Operator Russian Ministry of Defence
- Constellation Kosmos (Russian military / government)
- Country Russia
Altitude now
—
no element set
Velocity
—
Inclination
82.94°
Period
104.6 min
104.6 min
Perigee
937km
Apogee
1,013km
orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file.· Metadata updated 16 h ago
Live position
Live position
Live position unavailable — no public orbital element set exists for this object (it may be classified, untracked or too small to catalogue).
Mission
Mission & classification
- Mission type derived
- Military
- Object type
- Payload
- Radar cross-section
- 2.4 m²
- Constellation membership derived
- Kosmos (Russian military / government) via name_pattern
CelesTrak groups
Not listed in any CelesTrak group.
Aliases
- COSMOS 985Celestrak 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
- 17 Jan 1978
- COSPAR launch id
- 1978-007
- Launch site
- Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Objects from the same launch · 3
- SL-8 DEB11587DebrisDecayed
- COSMOS 985 DEB23836DebrisInactive
- SL-8 R/B10600Rocket bodyInactive
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
- 10599
- COSPAR / international designator
- 1978-007A
- SatelliteIndex id
- sat_01M28X3JMPJS2N5XY18A138J0P
- Canonical slug
- cosmos-985-10599
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.