Payload
COSMOS 1873
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COSMOS 1873 is a Russia (CIS / former USSR) payload satellite, launched on August 28, 1987 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- August 28, 1987 at 08:20 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
- Launched by
- Zenit-2 →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- GVM Tselina-2
- Launch record
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Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 120 km
- Periapsis
- 113 km
- Inclination
- 64.81°
- Orbital period
- 86.81 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 6,640.24 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1987-071A
- NORAD catalog №
- 18318
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Radar cross-section
- 91.61 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- September 14, 1987
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- September 14, 1987
- Time in service
- 17 days
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed