COSMOS 1961
NORAD 19344 · Payload · In orbit since 1988
View in the 3D atlas →- Launched
- 1988-08-01 · Baikonur, Kazakhstan
- Country / operator
- CIS (Russia / CIS)
- Object type
- Payload
- Purpose
- Communications
- Mass
- 2,100 kg
- Size
- 5.5 × 2.5 m · 9 m deployed
- Orbit class
- GEO (geosynchronous)
- Perigee × Apogee
- 35,773 × 35,806 km
- Inclination
- 11.4°
- Period
- 1435.9 min
- Eccentricity
- 0.0004
- 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.