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COSMOS 1961

NORAD 19344 · Payload · In orbit since 1988

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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
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.