COSMOS 1953


NORAD ID: 19210
Int'l Code: 1988-050A
Perigee: 568.9 km
Apogee: 589.7 km
Inclination: 82.5 °
Period: 96.1 minutes
Semi major axis: 6,950.3 km
Launch date: June 14, 1988
Source: Commonwealth of Independent States (former USSR) (CIS)
Comments: Cosmos 1953 was a Soviet ELINT (Electronic and Signals Intelligence) satellite launched from the Plesetsk cosmodrome. From 1965 to 1967 two dedicated ELINT systems were tested: the Tselina and the Navy's US. Both reached service, since the Ministry of Defence could not force a single system on the military services.


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