Weather
METEOR 1-6
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METEOR 1-6 is a Russia (CIS / former USSR) weather satellite, launched on October 15, 1970 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- October 15, 1970 at 11:22 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia
- Launched by
- Vostok 8A92M →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- Meteor-1 6 (16L)
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 129 km
- Periapsis
- 124 km
- Inclination
- 81.13°
- Orbital period
- 87.01 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 1,280 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1970-085A
- NORAD catalog №
- 4583
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Radar cross-section
- 7.8738 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- January 8, 1999
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- January 8, 1999
- Time in service
- 28.2 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed