Payload
COSMOS 1278
DecayedPayloadLEO
COSMOS 1278 is a Russia (CIS / former USSR) payload satellite, launched on June 19, 1981 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- June 19, 1981 at 07:37 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia
- Launched by
- Molniya-M 2BL →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- US-K 21
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 404 km
- Periapsis
- 63 km
- Inclination
- 62.73°
- Orbital period
- 89.18 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 1,150 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1981-058A
- NORAD catalog №
- 12547
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Radar cross-section
- 12.0504 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- September 2, 2000
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- September 2, 2000
- Time in service
- 19.2 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed