Payload
COSMOS 1008
DecayedPayloadLEO
COSMOS 1008 is a Russia (CIS / former USSR) payload satellite, launched on May 17, 1978 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- May 17, 1978 at 02:39 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia
- Launched by
- Kosmos-3M (11K65M) →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- Tselina-O 37
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 262 km
- Periapsis
- 251 km
- Inclination
- 74.01°
- Orbital period
- 89.64 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 867.2 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1978-049A
- NORAD catalog №
- 10898
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Radar cross-section
- 7.2697 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- January 8, 1981
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- January 8, 1981
- Time in service
- 2.6 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed