Satellite · NORAD 6079 · COSPAR 1972-049A
METEOR 1-12
- Operator Commonwealth of Independent States (former USSR)
- Constellation —
- Country Russia
Altitude now
—
no element set
Velocity
—
Inclination
81.22°
Period
102.6 min
102.6 min
Perigee
874km
Apogee
889km
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
- Weather
- Object type
- Payload
- Radar cross-section
- 3.9 m²
CelesTrak groups
Not listed in any CelesTrak group.
Aliases
- METEOR 1-12Celestrak Satcat
Ownership
Operator & country
- Operator
- —
- SATCAT owner code
- CIS · Commonwealth of Independent States (former USSR)
- Country
- Russia RU
Launch
Launch
- Launch date
- 30 Jun 1972
- COSPAR launch id
- 1972-049
- Launch site
- Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Objects from the same launch · 2
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
- 6079
- COSPAR / international designator
- 1972-049A
- SatelliteIndex id
- sat_01M28X3JKBHMHY1XM6QQDN5F1T
- Canonical slug
- meteor-1-12-6079
Orbit class, mission type and constellation membership are derived by SatelliteIndex (Weather) — see the methodology. Positions are propagated estimates, not tracking measurements; never use them for conjunction assessment.