Payload
COSMOS 1206
DecayedPayloadLEO
COSMOS 1206 is a Russia (CIS / former USSR) payload satellite, launched on August 15, 1980 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- August 15, 1980 at 05:34 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia
- Launched by
- Vostok 8A92M →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- Tselina-D 26
- Launch record
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Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 128 km
- Periapsis
- 117 km
- Inclination
- 81.13°
- Orbital period
- 86.93 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 2,477.7 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1980-069A
- NORAD catalog №
- 11932
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Radar cross-section
- 15.9819 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- January 14, 2002
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- January 14, 2002
- Time in service
- 21.4 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed