Rocket body · NORAD 6878 · COSPAR 1973-076B
SL-6 R/B(1)
- Operator Commonwealth of Independent States (former USSR)
- Constellation —
- Country Russia
Altitude now
—
object decayed
Velocity
—
Inclination
62.80°
Period
88.0 min
88.0 min
Perigee
152km
Apogee
198km
orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file — decayed 03 Dec 1973.· Metadata updated 15 h ago
Live position
Live position
Live position unavailable — this object re-entered the atmosphere on 03 Dec 1973 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
- 19 Oct 1973
- COSPAR launch id
- 1973-076
- Launch site
- Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Objects from the same launch · 3
- SL-6 PLAT6879DebrisDecayed
- MOLNIYA 2-76877PayloadDecayed
- SL-6 R/B(2)6898Rocket 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
- 6878
- COSPAR / international designator
- 1973-076B
- SatelliteIndex id
- sat_01M28X3JKFFNCZSEEK2BB19FGM
- Canonical slug
- sl-6-r-b-1-6878
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.