Payload
COSMOS 21
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COSMOS 21 is a Russia (CIS / former USSR) payload satellite, launched on November 11, 1963 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- November 11, 1963 at 06:23 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
- Launched by
- Molniya 8K78 →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- Zond-1a
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 220 km
- Periapsis
- 181 km
- Inclination
- 64.78°
- Orbital period
- 88.5 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 5,890 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1963-044A
- NORAD catalog №
- 687
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- November 14, 1963
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- November 14, 1963
- Time in service
- 3 days
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed