COSMOS 1278
NORAD 12547 · Payload · Reentered 2000-09-02
View in the 3D atlas →- Launched
- 1981-06-19 · 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
- LEO (< 2,000 km)
- Perigee × Apogee
- 63 × 404 km
- Inclination
- 62.7°
- Period
- 89.0 min
- Eccentricity
- 0.0258
- 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.