Nudol intercept of Cosmos 1408 is catalogued in this registry as an asat-test, held in the frame of Earth, from ASAT tests (curated).
Registry id ASAT_2021_C1408 ·
source layer asat ·
provenance RAW — read directly from a source catalogue, unaltered
Exists from 2021-11-15 00:00:00 UTC (JD 2459533.5) — no end date is recorded.
Open Nudol intercept of Cosmos 1408 in the live scene → The scene composes a position for any date and is where a figure becomes a picture. It downloads the whole catalogue first: measured against the built product, an object outside the core resolves after about 16 s over a local network and about 147 s over a 4 Mbit link, having transferred roughly 70 MB. If you cannot wait that long, this page is the answer.
These are the sourced elements. This page does not print a position: a position is a function of time, and a single one dated to the bake would be stale the moment it was read. The registry composes a position for any date, past or future, from these elements — open the scene below and set the clock.
| Quantity | Value | Uncertainty | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Semi-major axis | 6856000 m (6856 km) | no published uncertainty in this registry | ASAT tests (curated) |
| Eccentricity | 0 | no published uncertainty in this registry | ASAT tests (curated) |
| Inclination | 1.477483 rad (84.65354°) | no published uncertainty in this registry | ASAT tests (curated) |
| Longitude of ascending node | 1.680362 rad (96.27765°) | no published uncertainty in this registry | ASAT tests (curated) |
| Argument of periapsis | 0 rad (0°) | no published uncertainty in this registry | ASAT tests (curated) |
| Mean anomaly at epoch | 3.047893 rad (174.6314°) | no published uncertainty in this registry | ASAT tests (curated) |
Elements are expressed in the frame of
EARTH at epoch
2000-01-01 12:00:00 UTC (JD 2451545). Gravitational parameter of the primary:
3.9860044×10^14 m³/s². Semi-major axis in astronomical units uses the
IAU 2012 definition (1 au = 1.495978707×10^11 m exactly).
| Kind | asat-test |
|---|---|
| Origin | artificial (made by humans) |
Russia · Nudol destroyed Cosmos 1408 at ~485 km; ~1 500 tracked debris, ISS crews sheltered. [public record] Ω/M₀ placeholder (intercept point along the orbit not catalogued).
Reproduced as the source wrote it. Author-year citations link to their DOI where one is registered.
These are absences in the catalogues aggregated here, not measurements of zero, and not statements that the quantity is unknown to science:
| Database | ASAT tests (curated) |
|---|---|
| Authority | Public intercept records (tracking data, official statements) |
| Licence | Public record |
| How it entered | Curated data-as-code (src/ingest/catalogs/asat.ts) |
| Coverage | The 5 destructive anti-satellite intercepts 1985–2021, on the targets' documented orbits |
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