Payload
COSMOS 1238
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COSMOS 1238 is a Russia (CIS / former USSR) payload satellite, launched on January 16, 1981 into LEO.
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Launch
- Launch date
- January 16, 1981 at 09:00 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia
- Launched by
- Kosmos-3M (11K65M) →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- Taifun-1 12
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 1,311 km
- Periapsis
- 387 km
- Inclination
- 82.96°
- Orbital period
- 101.9 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 545.09 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1981-003A
- NORAD catalog №
- 12138
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Radar cross-section
- 2.954 m²
- Status
- active