Satellite · NORAD 6776 · COSPAR 1973-053A
MARS 7
- Operator Commonwealth of Independent States (former USSR)
- Constellation —
- Country Russia
Altitude now
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no element set
Velocity
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Inclination
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Period
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Perigee
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Apogee
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orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file.· Metadata updated 26 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
- Radar cross-section
- —
CelesTrak groups
Not listed in any CelesTrak group.
Aliases
- MARS 7Celestrak Satcat
Ownership
Operator & country
- Operator
- —
- SATCAT owner code
- CIS · Commonwealth of Independent States (former USSR)
- Country
- Russia RU
Launch
Launch
- Launch date
- 09 Aug 1973
- COSPAR launch id
- 1973-053
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome (Tyuratam)
Objects from the same launch · 3
- SL-12 PLAT6778DebrisDecayed
- MARS 7 DESCENT CRAFT7224PayloadUnknown
- SL-12 R/B6777Rocket 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
- 6776
- COSPAR / international designator
- 1973-053A
- SatelliteIndex id
- sat_01M28X3JKFFNCZSEEK2BB19FDE
- Canonical slug
- mars-7-6776
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.