Payload
COSMOS 1879
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COSMOS 1879 is a Russia (CIS / former USSR) payload satellite, launched on September 7, 1987 into LEO.
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Launch
- Launch date
- September 7, 1987 at 11:50 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia
- Launched by
- Tsiklon-3 →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- Strela-3 25 to 30
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 1,407 km
- Periapsis
- 1,398 km
- Inclination
- 82.57°
- Orbital period
- 113.83 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 222.99 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1987-074E
- NORAD catalog №
- 18338
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Radar cross-section
- 1.0822 m²
- Status
- active