Payload
COSMOS 1043
DecayedPayloadLEONORAD 11055
COSMOS 1043 is a Russia (CIS / former USSR) payload satellite, launched on October 10, 1978 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
Launch
- Launch date
- October 10, 1978 at 07:44 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia
- Launched by
- Vostok 8A92M →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- Tselina-D 16
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 139 km
- Periapsis
- 132 km
- Inclination
- 81.12°
- Orbital period
- 87.19 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 2,477.7 kg
- Dimensions
- Ø1.3 × 3.2 m
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1978-094A
- NORAD catalog №
- 11055
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Radar cross-section
- 14.5496 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- February 28, 1998
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- February 28, 1998
- Time in service
- 19.4 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed