Payload
COSMOS 17
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COSMOS 17 is a Russia (CIS / former USSR) payload satellite, launched on May 22, 1963 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
Launch
- Launch date
- May 22, 1963 at 03:00 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Kapustin Yar, Russia
- Launched by
- Kosmos-2I →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- DS-A1 2
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 213 km
- Periapsis
- 177 km
- Inclination
- 48.94°
- Orbital period
- 88.39 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 319.13 kg
- Dimensions
- 1.8 × 1.2 × 1.8 m
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1963-017A
- NORAD catalog №
- 580
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- June 2, 1965
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- June 2, 1965
- Time in service
- 2.0 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed