Weather
METEOR 1-9
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METEOR 1-9 is a Russia (CIS / former USSR) weather satellite, launched on July 16, 1971 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- July 16, 1971 at 01:41 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia
- Launched by
- Vostok 8A92M →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- Meteor-1 9 (20L)
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 160 km
- Periapsis
- 139 km
- Inclination
- 81.12°
- Orbital period
- 87.48 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 1,280 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1971-059A
- NORAD catalog №
- 5327
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Radar cross-section
- 10.5161 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- August 27, 1991
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- August 27, 1991
- Time in service
- 20.1 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed