Rocket body · NORAD 12384 · COSPAR 1981-031D
SL-6 R/B(2)
- Operator Commonwealth of Independent States (former USSR)
- Constellation —
- Country Russia
Altitude now
—
no element set
Velocity
—
Inclination
68.13°
Period
11.8 h
707.5 min
Perigee
3,955km
Apogee
35,890km
orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file.· Metadata updated 10 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
- Rocket body
- Object type
- Rocket body
- Radar cross-section
- 5.5 m²
CelesTrak groups
Not listed in any CelesTrak group.
Aliases
- SL-6 R/B(2)Celestrak Satcat
Ownership
Operator & country
- Operator
- —
- SATCAT owner code
- CIS · Commonwealth of Independent States (former USSR)
- Country
- Russia RU
Launch
Launch
- Launch date
- 31 Mar 1981
- COSPAR launch id
- 1981-031
- Launch site
- Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Objects from the same launch · 13
- SL-6 PLAT12378DebrisDecayed
- COSMOS 1261 DEB12892DebrisInactive
- COSMOS 1261 DEB12893DebrisInactive
- COSMOS 1261 DEB12894DebrisInactive
- COSMOS 1261 DEB27796DebrisInactive
- COSMOS 1261 DEB27901DebrisDecayed
- COSMOS 1261 DEB27902DebrisDecayed
- COSMOS 1261 DEB29202DebrisDecayed
- COSMOS 1261 DEB33520DebrisInactive
- COSMOS 1261 DEB35507DebrisInactive
- COSMOS 1261 DEB48264DebrisDecayed
- COSMOS 126112376PayloadUnknown
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
- 12384
- COSPAR / international designator
- 1981-031D
- SatelliteIndex id
- sat_01M28X3JN02E0SDVFV2PJHB7TJ
- Canonical slug
- sl-6-r-b-2-12384
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.