Debris object · NORAD 5887 · COSPAR 1972-015C
SL-4 DEB
- Operator Commonwealth of Independent States (former USSR)
- Constellation —
- Country Russia
Altitude now
—
object decayed
Velocity
—
Inclination
65.39°
Period
89.5 min
89.5 min
Perigee
204km
Apogee
294km
orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file — decayed 17 Mar 1972.· Metadata updated 7 d ago
Live position
Live position
Live position unavailable — this object re-entered the atmosphere on 17 Mar 1972 and is no longer tracked.
Mission
Mission & classification
- Mission type derived
- Debris
- Object type
- Debris
- SATCAT ops status
- Decayed [D]
- Radar cross-section
- —
CelesTrak groups
Not listed in any CelesTrak group.
Aliases
- SL-4 DEBCelestrak Satcat
Ownership
Operator & country
- Operator
- —
- SATCAT owner code
- CIS · Commonwealth of Independent States (former USSR)
- Country
- Russia RU
Launch
Launch
- Launch date
- 15 Mar 1972
- COSPAR launch id
- 1972-015
- Launch site
- Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Objects from the same launch · 5
- COSMOS 478 DEB5909DebrisDecayed
- COSMOS 478 DEB5910DebrisDecayed
- COSMOS 478 DEB5915DebrisDecayed
- COSMOS 4785885PayloadDecayed
- SL-4 R/B5886Rocket 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
- 5887
- COSPAR / international designator
- 1972-015C
- SatelliteIndex id
- sat_01M28X3JKA8VF1KS5WYH42EPVB
- Canonical slug
- sl-4-deb-5887
Orbit class, mission type and constellation membership are derived by SatelliteIndex (Debris) — see the methodology. Positions are propagated estimates, not tracking measurements; never use them for conjunction assessment.