Weather
METEOR 1-29
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METEOR 1-29 is a Russia (CIS / former USSR) weather satellite, launched on January 25, 1979 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- January 25, 1979 at 05:43 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
- Launched by
- Vostok 8A92M →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- Meteor-Priroda 2-3
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 125 km
- Periapsis
- 106 km
- Inclination
- 97.7°
- Orbital period
- 86.8 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 1,280 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1979-005A
- NORAD catalog №
- 11251
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Radar cross-section
- 5.415 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- March 1, 2024
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- March 1, 2024
- Time in service
- 45.1 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed