Payload
COSMOS 1242
DecayedPayloadLEO
COSMOS 1242 is a Russia (CIS / former USSR) payload satellite, launched on January 27, 1981 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- January 27, 1981 at 02:58 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia
- Launched by
- Vostok 8A92M →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- Tselina-D 28
- Launch record
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Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 139 km
- Periapsis
- 133 km
- Inclination
- 81.12°
- Orbital period
- 87.2 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 2,477.7 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1981-008A
- NORAD catalog №
- 12154
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Radar cross-section
- 8.3499 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- May 8, 2014
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- May 8, 2014
- Time in service
- 33.3 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed