Kosmos-1378 was one of more than 2,400 Soviet artificial satellites launched as part of the

USSR The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen nationa ...

space program. Kosmos-1378 was launched from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in the

, on June 10, 1982. The R-36 or

RT-2 The RT-2 was an intercontinental ballistic missile deployed by the Soviet Union, which was in service from December 1968 until 1976. It was assigned the NATO reporting name SS-13 Savage and carried the GRAU index 8K98. Designed by OKB-1, about 60 ...

launch vehicle placed the satellite in orbit around Earth with an additional degree. The mass of the satellites at launch was approximately 2,200 kilograms. Kosmos-1378 was a satellite designed for electronic reconnaissance, communications and navigation (ELINT).

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