Rocket body · NORAD 7009 · COSPAR 1973-109B
SL-8 R/B
- Operator Commonwealth of Independent States (former USSR)
- Constellation —
- Country Russia
Altitude now
—
no element set
Velocity
—
Inclination
82.95°
Period
104.6 min
104.6 min
Perigee
960km
Apogee
989km
orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file.· Metadata updated 17 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
- 3.9 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
- 29 Dec 1973
- COSPAR launch id
- 1973-109
- Launch site
- Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Objects from the same launch · 2
- COSMOS 627 DEB45504DebrisInactive
- COSMOS 6277008PayloadUnknown
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
- 7009
- COSPAR / international designator
- 1973-109B
- SatelliteIndex id
- sat_01M28X3JKGVMRV49E6X6GC90CZ
- Canonical slug
- sl-8-r-b-7009
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.