Space AtlasCOSMOS 461
NORAD 5643 · Payload · Reentered 1979-02-21
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- 1971-12-02 · Plesetsk, Russia
- Country / operator
- CIS (Russia / CIS)
- Object type
- Payload
- Purpose
- Astronomy
- Mass
- 330 kg
- Size
- 2 × 1.3 m · 3.2 m deployed
- Orbit class
- LEO (< 2,000 km)
- Perigee × Apogee
- 150 × 160 km
- Inclination
- 69.2°
- Period
- 87.4 min
- Eccentricity
- 0.0008
- 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.