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NORAD 6805 · Payload · Reentered 1979-12-05

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Launched
1973-08-30 · 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
129 × 38,361 km
Inclination
64.9°
Period
680.0 min
Eccentricity
0.7463
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.