If it had achieved working orbit it would have occupied an altitude of 280 kilometres: 170 miles above the Earth’s Surface, at an inclination of 64 degrees. Its wreckage currently lies on the floor of the South Pacific (Grondine, 2019). It broke-up, partially burning-up on its re-entry crashing into the South Pacific. The 15 May, 1987 launch of the Soviet Polyus Spacecraft intended as an Orbital Battle Station, failed to reach orbit.
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