COSMOS 491
NORAD 6035 · Payload · Reentered 1972-06-08
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- 1972-05-25 · Baikonur, Kazakhstan
- Country / operator
- CIS (Russia / CIS)
- Object type
- Payload
- Purpose
- Optical imaging
- Mass
- 2,200 kg
- Size
- 6 × 2.2 m
- Orbit class
- LEO (< 2,000 km)
- Perigee × Apogee
- 173 × 337 km
- Inclination
- 65.0°
- Period
- 89.5 min
- Eccentricity
- 0.0124
- 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.