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Rocket body · NORAD 12561 · COSPAR 1981-058D

SL-6 R/B(2)

DecayedRocket bodyLEORocket body derived
  • Operator Commonwealth of Independent States (former USSR)
  • Constellation
  • Country Russia

Altitude now

object decayed

Velocity

Inclination

62.25°

Period

90.8 min

90.8 min

Perigee

91km

Apogee

532km

orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file — decayed 10 Jun 2013.· Metadata updated 21 h ago

Live position

Live position

Live position unavailable — this object re-entered the atmosphere on 10 Jun 2013 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
4.9 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 page
Launch date
19 Jun 1981
COSPAR launch id
1981-058

Objects from the same launch · 5

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

UN Register of Objects Launched into Outer Space (UNOOSA) — connector planned, not yet ingested; registration unavailable

Transparency

Sources & provenance

All sources

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

All 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
12561
COSPAR / international designator
1981-058D
SatelliteIndex id
sat_01M28X3JN1T2KP15BBVVKD053M
Canonical slug
sl-6-r-b-2-12561

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.