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NORAD 10925 · Payload · In orbit since 1978

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Launched
1978-06-02 · Plesetsk, Russia
Country / operator
CIS (Russia / CIS)
Object type
Payload
Purpose
Communications
Mass
1,650 kg
Size
4.4 × 1.4 m · 8.6 m deployed
Perigee × Apogee
2,292 × 38,047 km
Inclination
64.0°
Period
717.2 min
Eccentricity
0.6736
Orbit data
Reconstructed from catalog orbit

Mass, size and purpose from GCAT (J. McDowell, CC BY 4.0).

Same launch

Other objects cataloged from the same launch day and site: co-passengers and the rocket body.