Payload
COSMOS 1979
DecayedPayloadLEO
COSMOS 1979 is a Russia (CIS / former USSR) payload satellite, launched on November 18, 1988 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- November 18, 1988 at 12:12 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
- Launched by
- Tsiklon-2 →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- US-P 29
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 173 km
- Periapsis
- 129 km
- Inclination
- 64.94°
- Orbital period
- 87.51 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 2,973.24 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1988-101A
- NORAD catalog №
- 19647
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Radar cross-section
- 45.46 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- December 25, 1989
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- December 25, 1989
- Time in service
- 1.1 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed