Rocket body · NORAD 12508 · COSPAR 1981-053B
SL-8 R/B
- Operator Commonwealth of Independent States (former USSR)
- Constellation —
- Country Russia
Altitude now
—
no element set
Velocity
—
Inclination
82.96°
Period
104.6 min
104.6 min
Perigee
948km
Apogee
1,004km
orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file.· Metadata updated 9 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
- 4.3 m²
CelesTrak groups
Not listed in any CelesTrak group.
Aliases
- SL-8 R/BCelestrak Satcat
Ownership
Operator & country
- Operator
- —
- SATCAT owner code
- CIS · Commonwealth of Independent States (former USSR)
- Country
- Russia RU
Launch
Launch
- Launch date
- 04 Jun 1981
- COSPAR launch id
- 1981-053
- Launch site
- Plesetsk Cosmodrome
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- COSMOS 1275 DEB12649DebrisInactive
- COSMOS 1275 DEB12650DebrisInactive
- COSMOS 1275 DEB12651DebrisDecayed
- COSMOS 1275 DEB12652DebrisInactive
- COSMOS 1275 DEB12653DebrisInactive
- COSMOS 1275 DEB12654DebrisInactive
- COSMOS 1275 DEB12655DebrisInactive
- COSMOS 1275 DEB12656DebrisInactive
- COSMOS 1275 DEB12657DebrisDecayed
- COSMOS 1275 DEB12658DebrisInactive
- COSMOS 1275 DEB12659DebrisInactive
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
- 12508
- COSPAR / international designator
- 1981-053B
- SatelliteIndex id
- sat_01M28X3JN1T2KP15BBVVKD051Z
- Canonical slug
- sl-8-r-b-12508
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.