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COSMOS 422

NORAD 5238 · Payload · In orbit since 1971

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Launched
1971-05-22 · Plesetsk, Russia
Country / operator
CIS (Russia / CIS)
Object type
Payload
Purpose
Navigation
Mass
680 kg
Size
5 × 2.1 m · 17 m deployed
Orbit class
LEO (< 2,000 km)
Perigee × Apogee
981 × 1,002 km
Inclination
74.0°
Period
104.8 min
Eccentricity
0.0014
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.