Satellite · NORAD 11440 · COSPAR 1979-062A
GORIZONT 2
- Operator Commonwealth of Independent States (former USSR)
- Constellation —
- Country Russia
Altitude now
—
no element set
Velocity
—
Inclination
5.53°
Period
23.9 h
1,436.2 min
Perigee
35,763km
Apogee
35,813km
orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file.· Metadata updated 12 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
- Unknown
- Object type
- Payload
- SATCAT ops status
- Non-operational [-]
- Radar cross-section
- 4.0 m²
CelesTrak groups
Not listed in any CelesTrak group.
Aliases
- GORIZONT 2Celestrak Satcat
Ownership
Operator & country
- Operator
- —
- SATCAT owner code
- CIS · Commonwealth of Independent States (former USSR)
- Country
- Russia RU
Launch
Launch
- Launch date
- 05 Jul 1979
- COSPAR launch id
- 1979-062
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome (Tyuratam)
Objects from the same launch · 5
- SL-12 PLAT11442DebrisDecayed
- SL-12 R/B(1)11441Rocket bodyDecayed
- SL-12 R/B(2)14005Rocket bodyInactive
- SL-12 R/B(AUX MOTOR)14070Rocket bodyDecayed
- SL-12 R/B(AUX MOTOR)14419Rocket 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
- 11440
- COSPAR / international designator
- 1979-062A
- SatelliteIndex id
- sat_01M28X3JMVY4E9EMRT8K2XMWVC
- Canonical slug
- gorizont-2-11440
Orbit class, mission type and constellation membership are derived by SatelliteIndex (Unknown) — see the methodology. Positions are propagated estimates, not tracking measurements; never use them for conjunction assessment.