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COSMOS 304

NORAD 4138 · Payload · In orbit since 1969

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Launched
1969-10-21 · Plesetsk, Russia
Country / operator
CIS (Russia / CIS)
Object type
Payload
Purpose
Navigation
Mass
795 kg
Size
5 × 2.1 m · 17 m deployed
Orbit class
LEO (< 2,000 km)
Perigee × Apogee
728 × 746 km
Inclination
74.0°
Period
99.4 min
Eccentricity
0.0013
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.