Satellite · NORAD 15857 · COSPAR 1984-128F
VEGA 2 BALLOON
- Operator Commonwealth of Independent States (former USSR)
- Constellation —
- Country Russia
Altitude now
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object decayed
Velocity
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Inclination
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Period
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Perigee
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Apogee
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orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file — decayed 15 Jun 1985.· Metadata updated 9 h ago
Live position
Live position
Live position unavailable — this object re-entered the atmosphere on 15 Jun 1985 and is no longer tracked.
Mission
Mission & classification
- Mission type derived
- Unknown
- Object type
- Payload
- SATCAT ops status
- Decayed [D]
- Radar cross-section
- —
CelesTrak groups
Not listed in any CelesTrak group.
Aliases
- VEGA 2 BALLOONCelestrak Satcat
Ownership
Operator & country
- Operator
- —
- SATCAT owner code
- CIS · Commonwealth of Independent States (former USSR)
- Country
- Russia RU
Launch
Launch
- Launch date
- 21 Dec 1984
- COSPAR launch id
- 1984-128
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome (Tyuratam)
Objects from the same launch · 5
- SL-12 PLAT15452DebrisDecayed
- VEGA 2 BUS15449PayloadUnknown
- VEGA 2 DESCENT CRAFT15856PayloadDecayed
- SL-12 R/B(2)15450Rocket bodyInactive
- SL-12 R/B(1)15451Rocket 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
- 15857
- COSPAR / international designator
- 1984-128F
- SatelliteIndex id
- sat_01M28X3JNMNGZEMQFW8S6D3RK7
- Canonical slug
- vega-2-balloon-15857
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.