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Mission type
  
Ocean reconnaissance

SATCAT no.
  
13441

Disposal
  
Decommissioned

Inclination
  
65°

Period
  
1.5 hours

Rocket
  
COSPAR ID
  
1982-084A

Spacecraft type
  
Launch date
  
30 August 1982

Inclination
  
65°

Apogee
  
263,000 m

Launch site
  
Baikonur Cosmodrome

Decay date
  
23 January 1983Reactor: 7 February 1983

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Kosmos 1402 (Russian: Космос 1402) was a Soviet spy satellite that failed to achieve its correct orbit. Normally, such satellites burn up harmlessly in the Earth's atmosphere upon re-entry. However, Kosmos 1402 was nuclear powered. A similar satellite, Kosmos 954, crashed in Canada's Northwest Territories in 1978.

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Kosmos 1402 was launched on August 30, 1982. Normally, such satellites separate from their reactor core upon completion of the mission. The core is then boosted into a "parking orbit". However, the core of 1402 did not boost itself into parking orbit. Kosmos 1402 reentered the Earth's atmosphere on January 23, 1983, hundreds of miles south of the island of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean, leaving no known debris. The core re-entered on February 7, 1983, landing in the South Atlantic Ocean.

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References

Kosmos 1402 Wikipedia


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