Rocket body · NORAD 12917 · COSPAR 1981-105C
SL-6 R/B(1)
- Operator Commonwealth of Independent States (former USSR)
- Constellation —
- Country Russia
Altitude now
—
object decayed
Velocity
—
Inclination
62.80°
Period
87.6 min
87.6 min
Perigee
133km
Apogee
179km
orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file — decayed 06 Nov 1981.· Metadata updated 9 h ago
Live position
Live position
Live position unavailable — this object re-entered the atmosphere on 06 Nov 1981 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-6 R/B(1)Celestrak Satcat
Ownership
Operator & country
- Operator
- —
- SATCAT owner code
- CIS · Commonwealth of Independent States (former USSR)
- Country
- Russia RU
Launch
Launch
- Launch date
- 17 Oct 1981
- COSPAR launch id
- 1981-105
- Launch site
- Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Objects from the same launch · 4
- SL-6 PLAT12916DebrisDecayed
- SL-6 DEB12918DebrisDecayed
- MOLNIYA 3-1712915PayloadDecayed
- SL-6 R/B(2)12920Rocket 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
- 12917
- COSPAR / international designator
- 1981-105C
- SatelliteIndex id
- sat_01M28X3JN3K8TJJ4HEYXYF75ZZ
- Canonical slug
- sl-6-r-b-1-12917
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.