Satellite · NORAD 25533 · COSPAR 1998-062C
SPUTNIK 41
- Operator Commonwealth of Independent States (former USSR)
- Constellation —
- Country Russia
Altitude now
—
object decayed
Velocity
—
Inclination
51.63°
Period
87.5 min
87.5 min
Perigee
149km
Apogee
154km
orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file — decayed 11 Jan 1999.· Metadata updated 12 h ago
Live position
Live position
Live position unavailable — this object re-entered the atmosphere on 11 Jan 1999 and is no longer tracked.
Mission
Mission & classification
- Mission type derived
- Unknown
- Object type
- Payload
- SATCAT ops status
- Decayed [D]
- Radar cross-section
- 0.2 m²
CelesTrak groups
Not listed in any CelesTrak group.
Aliases
- SPUTNIK 41Celestrak Satcat
Ownership
Operator & country
- Operator
- —
- SATCAT owner code
- CIS · Commonwealth of Independent States (former USSR)
- Country
- Russia RU
Launch
Launch
- Launch date
- 25 Oct 1998
- COSPAR launch id
- 1998-062
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome (Tyuratam)
Objects from the same launch · 2
- PROGRESS-M 4025512PayloadDecayed
- SL-4 R/B25513Rocket 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
- 25533
- COSPAR / international designator
- 1998-062C
- SatelliteIndex id
- sat_01M28X3JQ95R9Y8N3H7XFHPTF7
- Canonical slug
- sputnik-41-25533
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.