Space Atlas

RADIO 1 (RS1)

NORAD 11085 · Payload · In orbit since 1978

Launched

1978-10-26 · Plesetsk, Russia

Country / operator

CIS (Russia / CIS)

Object type

Payload

Purpose

Communications

Mass

40 kg

Size

0.3 × 0.4 m · 1.5 m deployed

Orbit class

LEO (< 2,000 km)

Perigee × Apogee

1,686 × 1,706 km

Inclination

82.5°

Period

120.2 min

Eccentricity

0.0012

Orbit data

Reconstructed from catalog orbit

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