Rocket body · NORAD 9625 · COSPAR 1976-124B
SL-8 R/B
- Operator Commonwealth of Independent States (former USSR)
- Constellation —
- Country Russia
Altitude now
—
object decayed
Velocity
—
Inclination
65.82°
Period
88.4 min
88.4 min
Perigee
189km
Apogee
202km
orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file — decayed 05 Sept 1979.· Metadata updated 6 d ago
Live position
Live position
Live position unavailable — this object re-entered the atmosphere on 05 Sept 1979 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
- 13.3 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
- 17 Dec 1976
- COSPAR launch id
- 1976-124
- Launch site
- Plesetsk Cosmodrome
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- COSMOS 885 DEB9915DebrisDecayed
- COSMOS 885 DEB9916DebrisDecayed
- COSMOS 885 DEB9917DebrisDecayed
- COSMOS 885 DEB9918DebrisDecayed
- COSMOS 885 DEB9919DebrisDecayed
- COSMOS 885 DEB9920DebrisDecayed
- COSMOS 885 DEB9922DebrisDecayed
- COSMOS 885 DEB9923DebrisDecayed
- COSMOS 885 DEB9924DebrisDecayed
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
- 9625
- COSPAR / international designator
- 1976-124B
- SatelliteIndex id
- sat_01M28X3JMHCACQ7Z24X98DZ13G
- Canonical slug
- sl-8-r-b-9625
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.