COSMOS 1500

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COSMOS 1500 is classified as:

Brightest

NORAD ID: 14372

Int'l Code: 1983-099A

Perigee: 454.3 km

Apogee: 465.6 km

Inclination: 82.5 °

Period: 93.6 minutes

Semi major axis: 6830 km

RCS: 10.3418 m² (large)

Launch date: September 28, 1983
Source: Commonwealth of Independent States (former USSR) (CIS)
Launch site: PLESETSK MISSILE AND SPACE COMPLEX (PKMTR)

The Cosmos 1500 spacecraft was a precursor to the operational Russian Okean ("Ocean") series of oceanographic remote sensing missions. The satellite tested a new sensors and methods of data collection and processing. Cosmos 1500 had the capability of overlapping and processing images from its sensors. Data from satellite were sent directly to ships or automated data receiving stations and was applied in navigation in northern oceans.

1 14372U 83099A   24116.89317923  .00030962  00000-0  83186-3 0  9991
2 14372  82.5111  14.2473 0008268 345.0959  15.0040 15.37732388218184

Source of the keplerian elements: AFSPC