Payload
COSMOS 1728
DecayedPayloadLEO
A catalogued spacecraft payload.
Loading…
Launch
- Launch date
- January 28, 1986 at 04:38 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
- Launched by
- Space Shuttle →
- Operator
- Lockheed Space Operations Company
- Mission
- STS-51-L
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 259 km
- Periapsis
- 223 km
- Inclination
- 69.97°
- Orbital period
- 89.32 min
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1986-009A
- NORAD catalog №
- 16512
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Radar cross-section
- 19.42 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- February 11, 1986
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- February 11, 1986
- Time in service
- 14 days
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed
Related news
I Am Artemis: Elkin Norena
NASA · 5d ago
Q&A: Astronaut Linda Godwin on lessons learned from Artemis
SpaceNews · 2mo ago
I Am Artemis: Erik Richards
NASA · 2mo ago
Eileen Collins on what it takes to become Space Shuttle Commander
SpaceNews · 2mo ago
Astronauts’ Perspectives on NESC Contributions to Mission Safety and Success
NASA · 3mo ago