Soviet artificial satellite destroyed by an ASAT missile
Kosmos-1408
Ground-based telescope image of Kosmos 1408 debris (circled objects), captured on 15 November 2021
Names
Космос-1408 Ikar No. 39L
Mission type
ELINT
COSPAR ID
1982-092A
SATCAT no.
13552
Mission duration
6 months (planned)[1] 2 years (achieved)[2]
Spacecraft properties
Spacecraft
Ikar No. 39L [3]
Spacecraft type
ELINT
Bus
Tselina-D
Manufacturer
Yuzhnoye Design Office
Launch mass
1,750 kg (3,860 lb)
Start of mission
Launch date
16 September 1982, 04:55 UTC
Rocket
Tsyklon-3
Launch site
Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Site 32/2
Contractor
Yuzhmash
End of mission
Declared
1984
Destroyed
15 November 2021
Orbital parameters
Reference system
Geocentric orbit[2]
Regime
Low Earth orbit
Perigee altitude
465 km (289 mi)
Apogee altitude
490 km (300 mi)
Inclination
82.60°
Period
93.00 minutes
Kosmos Series
← Kosmos-1407
Kosmos-1409 →
Kosmos-1408 (Russian: Космос-1408) was an electronic signals intelligence (ELINT) satellite operated by the Soviet Union. It was launched into low Earth orbit on 16 September 1982 at 14:55 UTC, replacing Kosmos-1378. It operated for around two years before becoming inactive and left in orbit.
The satellite was destroyed in a Russian anti-satellite weapon test on 15 November 2021, resulting in space debris in orbits between 300 and 1,100 km (190 and 680 mi) above Earth. The threat of potential collision with debris caused the crew of the International Space Station (ISS) to take shelter in their escape capsules for the first few passes of the debris cloud, and increased the future risk of a debris collision with the ISS or other satellites.
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Kosmos-1408 (Russian: Космос-1408) was an electronic signals intelligence (ELINT) satellite operated by the Soviet Union. It was launched into low Earth...
likely remain in orbit for decades or centuries. The destruction of the Kosmos1408 satellite by a Russian ASAT missile on November 15, 2021, has created...
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preceding months. Over 1,700 out of 6,873 maneuvers were performed to avoid Kosmos1408 debris. In addition to the OneWeb constellation, announced nearly concurrently...
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The earliest suspected loss was of Kosmos 1275, which disappeared on 24 July 1981 (a month after launch). Kosmos contained no volatile fuel, therefore...
satellites. On 15 November 2021, a Russian anti-satellite test destroyed its Kosmos1408, endangering its own cosmonauts on the International Space Station, and...
launched in 1982 as part of the Soviet military's Oko programme. Kosmos 1409 replaced Kosmos 1217 as part of the Oko constellation of satellites and covered...
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did not necessarily include the void. Another synonym was ὁ κόσμος (ho kósmos) meaning 'the world, the cosmos'. Synonyms are also found in Latin authors...
Philosophy of Space and Time. Dover. ISBN 0-486-60443-8 1930. Atom und Kosmos. Das physikalische Weltbild der Gegenwart. English translation: 1932, Atom...
Bibcode:2006JBAA..116..102B. Alexander von Humboldt (1850). Humboldts Kosmos: In verkürzter Gestalt. Greiner und Pfeiffer. Berman, Louis (1935). "The...
Barony of Patras, and its Latin archbishop primate of the principality. In 1408, Patras became Venetian, until it was recaptured in 1430 by the Despotate...
Heavens", Josiah Crampton, William Hunt and Company (1876), p.164 (in German) Kosmos: Entwurf einer physischen Weltbeschreibung, Volume 4, Alexander von Humboldt...
Roman (some from Pompeii). The Natural History Museum of the University (Kosmos), housed inside Palazzo Botta Adorno, is one of the oldest in Italy, it...
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