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RE: Meteor 1-1 satellite

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Update:
The Meteor 1-1 satellite re-entered the Earths atmosphere on the 26th March, 2012 @ 21:22 GMT ± 1 minute.

Inclination: 81.11°
Revolution Number: 35517
Predicted Location: 47°N, 95°E

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Update:
The Meteor 1-1 satellite is predicted to re-enter the Earths atmosphere on the 26th March, 2012 @ 21:46 GMT ± 4 hours.

METEOR 1-1
1 03835U 69029A   12086.57903133  .08498548 -98318-6  22417-3 0  1390
2 03835 081.1148 230.7890 0012846 276.7852 083.4132 16.44673668355129

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Period:       88.32 minutes
Inclination: 81.11°
Apogee:     201 km
Perigee:     181 km
Revolution Number: 35517
Predicted Location:   44.7°N, 251°E

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Update:
The Meteor 1-1 satellite is predicted to re-enter the Earths atmosphere on the 26th March, 2012 @ 21:13 GMT ± 8 hours.

METEOR 1-1
1 03835U 69029A   12086.27434395  .04116144 -96715-6  35105-3 0  1376
2 03835 081.1156 231.2150 0012984 268.1932 091.7936 16.39256557355076

Period:       88.53 minutes
Inclination: 81.12°
Apogee:     209 km
Perigee:     194 km
Revolution Number: 35516
Predicted Location:   2.7°S, 87.9°E

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Update:
The Meteor 1-1 satellite is predicted to re-enter the Earths atmosphere on the 26th March, 2012 @ 20:24 GMT ± 15 hours.

METEOR 1-1
1 03835U 69029A   12085.78539595  .03976544 -96142-6  53901-3 0  1352
2 03835 081.1202 231.8993 0012327 275.0468 084.9858 16.35120379354996

Period:       88.53 minutes
Inclination: 81.12°
Apogee:     209 km
Perigee:     194 km
Revolution Number: 35516
Predicted Location:   21.4°N, 277°E

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The Meteor 1-1 satellite that was launched on the 26th March, 1969, from the Plesetsk northern cosmodrome is predicted to re-enter the Earths atmosphere on the 26th March, 2012 @ 14:55 GMT ± 48 hours.

METEOR 1-1
1 03835U 69029A   12083.20360818  .01304846 -93606-6  56310-3 0  1231
2 03835 081.1298 235.4561 0010413 264.5421 095.5210 16.22544352354579

Period:       88.99 minutes
Inclination: 81.13°
Apogee:     231 km
Perigee:     219 km
Revolution Number: 35512
Predicted Location:   71.2°S, 30.9°E

Meteor 1-1, the very first version of the Meteor satellite network, is performing its final orbits after having spent more then 4 decades in Earth orbit.
On March 26, 1969, a Vostok rocket launched Meteor 1-1, Russia's first fully operational weather satellite, into orbit. With a mass of 1200 to 1400 kilograms, a length of 5 meters and a diameter of 2.5 meters, the Meteor 1-1 spacecraft was originally placed in an orbital altitude of 650 km.
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Meteor 1-1 was the first fully operational Russian meteorological satellite and the ninth meteorological satellite launched from the Plesetsk site. The satellite was placed in a near-circular, near-polar prograde orbit to provide near-global observations of the earth's weather systems, cloud cover, ice and snow fields, and reflected and emitted radiation from the dayside and nightside of the earth-atmosphere system for operational use by the Soviet Hydrometeorological Service.
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