Satellite · NORAD 18242 · COSPAR 1987-013C
SOYUZ-TM 2 ORBIT MODULE
- Operator Commonwealth of Independent States (former USSR)
- Constellation —
- Country Russia
Altitude now
—
object decayed
Velocity
—
Inclination
51.61°
Period
87.3 min
87.3 min
Perigee
136km
Apogee
146km
orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file — decayed 16 Jan 1988.· Metadata updated 3 d ago
Live position
Live position
Live position unavailable — this object re-entered the atmosphere on 16 Jan 1988 and is no longer tracked.
Mission
Mission & classification
- Mission type derived
- Unknown
- Object type
- Payload
- SATCAT ops status
- Decayed [D]
- Radar cross-section
- 17.6 m²
CelesTrak groups
Not listed in any CelesTrak group.
Aliases
- SOYUZ-TM 2 ORBIT MODULECelestrak Satcat
Ownership
Operator & country
- Operator
- —
- SATCAT owner code
- CIS · Commonwealth of Independent States (former USSR)
- Country
- Russia RU
Launch
Launch
- Launch date
- 05 Feb 1987
- COSPAR launch id
- 1987-013
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome (Tyuratam)
Objects from the same launch · 2
- SOYUZ-TM 217482PayloadDecayed
- SL-4 R/B17483Rocket bodyDecayed
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
- 18242
- COSPAR / international designator
- 1987-013C
- SatelliteIndex id
- sat_01M28X3JP1D693V3WCE2XM2GJP
- Canonical slug
- soyuz-tm-2-orbit-module-18242
Orbit class, mission type and constellation membership are derived by SatelliteIndex (Unknown) — see the methodology. Positions are propagated estimates, not tracking measurements; never use them for conjunction assessment.