Cosmos
COSMOS 1500
The Cosmos-1500 spacecraft was launched on 28 September 1983, in Plesetsk, U.S.S.R.. Cosmos-1500 was a precursor to the operational Russian Okean ("Ocean") series of oceanographic remote sensing missions. Cosmos-1500 was launched into a 649 x 679 km orbit at 82.6 deg. inclination. The Cosmos-1500 tested new sensors and methods of data collection and processing. Cosmos-1500 had the capability of overlapping and processing images from its sensors. Data from Cosmos-1500 were sent directly to ships or automated data receiving stations and was applied in navigation in northern oceans. The instrument complement was highlighted by an all-weather X-band Side-Looking Real Aperature radar (SLRAR) operating at 9.5 GHz. other instruments included a multispectral scanner (MSL), a scanning high-frequency radiometer (SHF), and transponders for collecting data from ice and buoy transmitters. Group: Platform_Details Entry_ID: COSMOS 1500 Group: Platform_Identification Platform_Category: Earth Observation Satellites Platform_Series_or_Entity: COSMOS Short_Name: COSMOS 1500 End_Group Group: Synonymous_Platform_Names Short_Name: COSMOS 1500 End_Group Group: Orbit Orbit_Inclination: 82.5 degrees Period: 95.8 min Perigee: 546 km Apogee: 565 km End_Group Creation_Date: 2007-09-12 Online_Resource: http://www.n2yo.com/satellite.php?s=14372 Group: Platform_Logistics Launch_Date: 1983-09-28 Primary_Sponsor: Russia End_Group End_Group