COSMOS 242
NORAD 3414 · Payload · Reentered 1968-11-13
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- 1968-09-20 · Plesetsk, Russia
- Country / operator
- CIS (Russia / CIS)
- Object type
- Payload
- Purpose
- Calibration
- Mass
- 200 kg
- Size
- 1.4 × 1.4 m
- Orbit class
- LEO (< 2,000 km)
- Perigee × Apogee
- 160 × 160 km
- Inclination
- 70.9°
- Period
- 87.5 min
- Eccentricity
- 0.0000
- Orbit data
- Reconstructed from catalog orbit
Mass, size and purpose from GCAT (J. McDowell, CC BY 4.0).
Same launch
Other objects cataloged from the same launch day and site: co-passengers and the rocket body.