Status
Success
Cosmos 1870
Launch Time
Sat Jul 25, 1987 09:00 UTC
Sat Jul 25, 1987 09:00 UTC
Rocket
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