Payload
COSMOS 1679
DecayedPayloadLEO
COSMOS 1679 is a Russia (CIS / former USSR) payload satellite, launched on August 29, 1985 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- August 29, 1985 at 11:33 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
- Launched by
- Soyuz U →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- Yantar-4K2 17
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 295 km
- Periapsis
- 168 km
- Inclination
- 64.85°
- Orbital period
- 89.13 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 6,640.24 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1985-078A
- NORAD catalog №
- 15999
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Radar cross-section
- 68.88 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- October 18, 1985
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- October 18, 1985
- Time in service
- 50 days
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed
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