Payload
COSMOS 1887
DecayedPayloadLEO
COSMOS 1887 is a Russia (CIS / former USSR) payload satellite, launched on September 29, 1987 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- September 29, 1987 at 12:49 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia
- Launched by
- Soyuz U →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- Bion 8
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 369 km
- Periapsis
- 214 km
- Inclination
- 62.82°
- Orbital period
- 90.35 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 5,847.37 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1987-083A
- NORAD catalog №
- 18380
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Radar cross-section
- 17.03 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- October 12, 1987
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- October 12, 1987
- Time in service
- 13 days
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed
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