Payload
PROGNOZ 8
DecayedPayloadHEO
PROGNOZ 8 is a Russia (CIS / former USSR) payload satellite, launched on December 25, 1980 into HEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- December 25, 1980 at 04:02 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
- Launched by
- Molniya-M 2BL →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- Prognoz-8
- Launch record
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Orbit
- Orbit regime
- HEO
- Apoapsis
- 197,369 km
- Periapsis
- 979 km
- Inclination
- 65.83°
- Orbital period
- 5687.99 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 976.21 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1980-103A
- NORAD catalog №
- 12116
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- December 28, 1984
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- December 28, 1984
- Time in service
- 4.0 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed