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NORAD 13890 · Payload · In orbit since 1983

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Launched
1983-03-16 · 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
1,623 × 38,832 km
Inclination
62.6°
Period
719.5 min
Eccentricity
0.6995
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.