Rocket body · NORAD 9608 · COSPAR 1976-121C
SL-13 R/B
- Operator Commonwealth of Independent States (former USSR)
- Constellation —
- Country Russia
Altitude now
—
object decayed
Velocity
—
Inclination
51.59°
Period
87.6 min
87.6 min
Perigee
148km
Apogee
162km
orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file — decayed 20 Dec 1976.· Metadata updated 7 d ago
Live position
Live position
Live position unavailable — this object re-entered the atmosphere on 20 Dec 1976 and is no longer tracked.
Mission
Mission & classification
- Mission type derived
- Rocket body
- Object type
- Rocket body
- SATCAT ops status
- Decayed [D]
- Radar cross-section
- —
CelesTrak groups
Not listed in any CelesTrak group.
Aliases
- SL-13 R/BCelestrak Satcat
Ownership
Operator & country
- Operator
- —
- SATCAT owner code
- CIS · Commonwealth of Independent States (former USSR)
- Country
- Russia RU
Launch
Launch
- Launch date
- 15 Dec 1976
- COSPAR launch id
- 1976-121
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome (Tyuratam)
Objects from the same launch · 5
- SL-13 DEB9609DebrisDecayed
- SL-13 DEB9611DebrisDecayed
- SL-13 DEB9612DebrisDecayed
- COSMOS 8819606PayloadDecayed
- COSMOS 8829607PayloadDecayed
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
- 9608
- COSPAR / international designator
- 1976-121C
- SatelliteIndex id
- sat_01M28X3JMHCACQ7Z24X98DZ12Z
- Canonical slug
- sl-13-r-b-9608
Orbit class, mission type and constellation membership are derived by SatelliteIndex (Rocket body) — see the methodology. Positions are propagated estimates, not tracking measurements; never use them for conjunction assessment.