Weather
METEOR 1-8
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METEOR 1-8 is a Russia (CIS / former USSR) weather satellite, launched on April 17, 1971 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- April 17, 1971 at 11:44 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia
- Launched by
- Vostok 8A92M →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- Meteor-1 8 (21L)
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 142 km
- Periapsis
- 138 km
- Inclination
- 81.19°
- Orbital period
- 87.28 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 1,280 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1971-031A
- NORAD catalog №
- 5142
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Radar cross-section
- 10.0385 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- January 10, 1991
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- January 10, 1991
- Time in service
- 19.7 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed