Manufacturer
Glavnoye Razvedyvatelnoe UpravleniyeKosmos-1408
9/16/1982
Cosmos-1408 appears to have broken up late 2021-11-14 or early 2021-11-15 Eastern time based on commercial and government tracking data.
LeoLabs’ ground-based radars tracked Cosmos-1408 as a single object three times a day until detecting multiple objects at 11:20 a.m. Eastern on 2021-11-15, indicating the breakup occurred within the preceding day.
LeoLabs initially detected six radar returns where there used to be one satellite after the Cosmos-1408 event and later reported seeing at least 30 distinct objects.