Payload
COSMOS 179
DecayedPayloadNORAD 2962
COSMOS 179 is a Russia (CIS / former USSR) payload satellite, launched on September 22, 1967. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
Launch
- Launch date
- September 22, 1967 at 02:05 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
- Launched by
- R-36O 8K69 →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- OGCh 14
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 3,450 kg
- Dimensions
- 2.3 × 1.4 × 2.3 m
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1967-091A
- NORAD catalog №
- 2962
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- September 22, 1967
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- September 22, 1967
- Time in service
- 0 days
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed