Payload
COSMOS 1268
DecayedPayloadLEO
COSMOS 1268 is a Russia (CIS / former USSR) payload satellite, launched on April 28, 1981 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- April 28, 1981 at 09:00 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
- Launched by
- Soyuz U →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- Zenit-6U 38
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 276 km
- Periapsis
- 223 km
- Inclination
- 70.38°
- Orbital period
- 89.49 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 6,243.81 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1981-040A
- NORAD catalog №
- 12423
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Radar cross-section
- 32.44 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- May 12, 1981
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- May 12, 1981
- Time in service
- 14 days
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed
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