NEXT SPACEFLIGHT

Status

Success

Cosmos 1870

Launch Time
Sat Jul 25, 1987 09:00 UTC

Rocket

Proton-K
RVSN USSR
Status: Retired
Liftoff Thrust: 9,469 kN
Payload to LEO: 20,100 kg
Payload to GTO: 0 kg
Stages: 3
Strap-ons: 0
Rocket Height: 56.14 m
Fairing Diameter: 4.15 m
Fairing Height: 16.12 m

Mission Details

Cosmos 1870

The design for this spacecraft was based on the Almaz crewed orbital station (Salyut 2, 3, 5) with docking ports and some environmental controls removed. It was equipped with a 3GHz S-band Synthetic Aperture Radar. It was to store data on a tape and downlinked it via the Luch GEO satellite.

Payloads: 1
Total Mass: 18,550.0 kg
Low Earth Orbit

Location

Site 200/40, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan

Stats

1987

68th orbital launch attempt

Proton-K

147th mission
6th mission of 1987
123rd successful mission
2nd consecutive successful mission