Kosmos 1375

Kosmos 1375

Mission type	ASAT target
COSPAR ID	1982-055A
SATCAT no.	13259
Spacecraft properties
Spacecraft type	Lira
Manufacturer	Yuzhnoye
Launch mass	650 kilograms (1,430 lb)
Start of mission
Launch date	6 June 1982, 17:10 (1982-06-06UTC17:10Z) UTC
Rocket	Kosmos-3M
Launch site	Plesetsk 132/2
Orbital parameters
Reference system	Geocentric
Regime	Low Earth
Perigee altitude	986 kilometres (613 mi)
Apogee altitude	1,003 kilometres (623 mi)
Inclination	65.8 degrees
Period	105 minutes

Kosmos 1375 (Russian: Космос 1375 meaning Cosmos 1375) was a target satellite which was used by the Soviet Union in the 1980s for tests of anti-satellite weapons as part of the "anti-satellite weapon" Istrebitel Sputnikov program.^[1] It was a product of the Dnepropetrovsk Sputnik satellite development program.^[2]

It was launched at 17:10 UTC on 6 June 1982,^[3] using a Kosmos-3M carrier rocket,^[4] flying from Site 132/2 at the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in Northwest Russia. This was the final launch of a Dnepropetrovsk Sputnik program satellite, a program that dated back to the early 1960s.

Kosmos 1375 was placed into a low Earth orbit with a perigee of 986 kilometres (613 mi), an apogee of 1,003 kilometres (623 mi), 65.8 degrees of inclination, and an orbital period of 105 minutes.^[2] On 18 June 1982, it was successfully intercepted and destroyed by Kosmos 1379 in the final Soviet anti-satellite weapons test to be conducted. As of 2022, debris is still in orbit.^[1][5]

Kosmos 1375 was the last of ten Lira satellites to be launched,^[2] of which all but the first were successful. Lira was derived from the earlier DS-P1-M satellite, which it replaced.

See also

• 1982 in spaceflight

References

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