Satellite · NORAD 4482 · COSPAR 1970-057A
INTERCOSMOS 3
- Operator Commonwealth of Independent States (former USSR)
- Constellation —
- Country Russia
Altitude now
—
object decayed
Velocity
—
Inclination
48.35°
Period
88.5 min
88.5 min
Perigee
152km
Apogee
251km
orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file — decayed 06 Dec 1970.· Metadata updated 10 h ago
Live position
Live position
Live position unavailable — this object re-entered the atmosphere on 06 Dec 1970 and is no longer tracked.
Mission
Mission & classification
- Mission type derived
- Unknown
- Object type
- Payload
- SATCAT ops status
- Decayed [D]
- Radar cross-section
- —
CelesTrak groups
Not listed in any CelesTrak group.
Aliases
- INTERCOSMOS 3Celestrak Satcat
Ownership
Operator & country
- Operator
- —
- SATCAT owner code
- CIS · Commonwealth of Independent States (former USSR)
- Country
- Russia RU
Launch
Launch
- Launch date
- 07 Aug 1970
- COSPAR launch id
- 1970-057
- Launch site
- Kapustin Yar Missile and Space Complex
Objects from the same launch · 1
- SL-7 R/B4483Rocket 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
- 4482
- COSPAR / international designator
- 1970-057A
- SatelliteIndex id
- sat_01M28X3JK2A48CZN6XHQAM476C
- Canonical slug
- intercosmos-3-4482
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.