Satellite · NORAD 15516 · COSPAR 1985-013A
METEOR 2-12
- Operator Commonwealth of Independent States (former USSR)
- Constellation —
- Country Russia
Altitude now
—
no element set
Velocity
—
Inclination
82.53°
Period
103.9 min
103.9 min
Perigee
931km
Apogee
955km
orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file.· Metadata updated 13 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
- 4.8 m²
CelesTrak groups
Not listed in any CelesTrak group.
Aliases
- METEOR 2-12Celestrak Satcat
Ownership
Operator & country
- Operator
- —
- SATCAT owner code
- CIS · Commonwealth of Independent States (former USSR)
- Country
- Russia RU
Launch
Launch
- Launch date
- 06 Feb 1985
- COSPAR launch id
- 1985-013
- Launch site
- Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Objects from the same launch · 6
- METEOR 2-12 DEB28603DebrisInactive
- METEOR 2-12 DEB45518DebrisInactive
- METEOR 2-12 DEB59994DebrisInactive
- METEOR 2-12 DEB59995DebrisInactive
- METEOR 2-12 DEB59996DebrisInactive
- SL-14 R/B15517Rocket 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
- 15516
- COSPAR / international designator
- 1985-013A
- SatelliteIndex id
- sat_01M28X3JNJDS27GT3ZGZR0WE7V
- Canonical slug
- meteor-2-12-15516
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.