Payload
COSMOS 1215
DecayedPayloadLEO
COSMOS 1215 is a Russia (CIS / former USSR) payload satellite, launched on October 14, 1980 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- October 14, 1980 at 08:41 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia
- Launched by
- Kosmos-3M (11K65M) →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- Tselina-O 40
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 173 km
- Periapsis
- 158 km
- Inclination
- 73.98°
- Orbital period
- 87.79 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 867.2 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1980-083A
- NORAD catalog №
- 12016
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Radar cross-section
- 6.3221 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- May 12, 1983
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- May 12, 1983
- Time in service
- 2.6 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed