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COSMOS 1779 [GLONASS]
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COSMOS 1779 [GLONASS] is a Russia (CIS / former USSR) navigation satellite, launched on September 16, 1986 into MEO.
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Launch
- Launch date
- September 16, 1986 at 11:38 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
- Launched by
- Proton K/DM-2 →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- Uragan 14 to 16
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- MEO
- Apoapsis
- 19,165 km
- Periapsis
- 19,094 km
- Inclination
- 64.9°
- Orbital period
- 675.73 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 1,288.4 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1986-071B
- NORAD catalog №
- 16962
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Radar cross-section
- 1.5 m²
- Status
- Nonoperational
End of mission
- Fate
- No longer operational — remains in orbit as inactive.
- Final status
- Nonoperational