Payload
COSMOS 1260
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COSMOS 1260 is a Russia (CIS / former USSR) payload satellite, launched on March 20, 1981 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- March 20, 1981 at 11:45 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
- Launched by
- Tsiklon-2 →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- US-P 10
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 175 km
- Periapsis
- 154 km
- Inclination
- 64.96°
- Orbital period
- 87.78 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 3,300 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1981-028A
- NORAD catalog №
- 12364
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Radar cross-section
- 34.1185 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- March 17, 1990
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- March 17, 1990
- Time in service
- 9.0 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed