Satellite · NORAD 11962 · COSPAR 1980-073A
METEOR 2-6
- Operator Commonwealth of Independent States (former USSR)
- Constellation —
- Country Russia
Altitude now
—
no element set
Velocity
—
Inclination
81.23°
Period
102.0 min
102.0 min
Perigee
830km
Apogee
881km
orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file.· Metadata updated 9 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
- 4.7 m²
CelesTrak groups
Not listed in any CelesTrak group.
Aliases
- METEOR 2-6Celestrak Satcat
Ownership
Operator & country
- Operator
- —
- SATCAT owner code
- CIS · Commonwealth of Independent States (former USSR)
- Country
- Russia RU
Launch
Launch
- Launch date
- 09 Sept 1980
- COSPAR launch id
- 1980-073
- Launch site
- Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Objects from the same launch · 20
- METEOR 2-6 DEB28986DebrisInactive
- METEOR 2-6 DEB28987DebrisInactive
- METEOR 2-6 DEB29199DebrisInactive
- METEOR 2-6 DEB29200DebrisDecayed
- METEOR 2-6 DEB29201DebrisInactive
- METEOR 2-6 DEB31406DebrisInactive
- METEOR 2-6 DEB35426DebrisInactive
- METEOR 2-6 DEB36307DebrisInactive
- METEOR 2-6 DEB36308DebrisDecayed
- METEOR 2-6 DEB36309DebrisInactive
- METEOR 2-6 DEB38836DebrisInactive
- METEOR 2-6 DEB38837DebrisDecayed
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
- 11962
- COSPAR / international designator
- 1980-073A
- SatelliteIndex id
- sat_01M28X3JMY44FK4HH9DRBZFYE9
- Canonical slug
- meteor-2-6-11962
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.