Space AtlasCOSMOS 1261
NORAD 12376 · Payload · In orbit since 1981
View in the 3D atlas →- Launched
- 1981-03-31 · Plesetsk, Russia
- Country / operator
- CIS (Russia / CIS)
- Object type
- Payload
- Purpose
- Early warning
- Mass
- 1,250 kg
- Size
- 4 × 2 m · 5 m deployed
- Orbit class
- Highly elliptical
- Perigee × Apogee
- 4,681 × 35,643 km
- Inclination
- 69.0°
- Period
- 716.9 min
- Eccentricity
- 0.5835
- 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.