Rocket body · NORAD 6351 · COSPAR 1973-005B
SL-8 R/B
- Operator Commonwealth of Independent States (former USSR)
- Constellation —
- Country Russia
Altitude now
—
object decayed
Velocity
—
Inclination
50.63°
Period
88.2 min
88.2 min
Perigee
180km
Apogee
192km
orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file — decayed 02 Mar 1988.· Metadata updated 10 h ago
Live position
Live position
Live position unavailable — this object re-entered the atmosphere on 02 Mar 1988 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
- 19.8 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
- 26 Jan 1973
- COSPAR launch id
- 1973-005
- Launch site
- Kapustin Yar Missile and Space Complex
Objects from the same launch · 1
- COSMOS 5466350PayloadUnknown
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
- 6351
- COSPAR / international designator
- 1973-005B
- SatelliteIndex id
- sat_01M28X3JKCHWZSMKS978TWAP61
- Canonical slug
- sl-8-r-b-6351
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.