Rocket body · NORAD 9884 · COSPAR 1977-022B
SL-8 R/B
- Operator Commonwealth of Independent States (former USSR)
- Constellation —
- Country Russia
Altitude now
—
object decayed
Velocity
—
Inclination
74.02°
Period
88.3 min
88.3 min
Perigee
185km
Apogee
194km
orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file — decayed 25 Dec 1980.· Metadata updated 3 d ago
Live position
Live position
Live position unavailable — this object re-entered the atmosphere on 25 Dec 1980 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
- 15.8 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
- 24 Mar 1977
- COSPAR launch id
- 1977-022
- Launch site
- Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Objects from the same launch · 2
- SL-8 DEB9900DebrisDecayed
- COSMOS 8999883PayloadDecayed
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
- 9884
- COSPAR / international designator
- 1977-022B
- SatelliteIndex id
- sat_01M28X3JMJDCJ7W2ZJQYF7GZEN
- Canonical slug
- sl-8-r-b-9884
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.