Payload
COSMOS 217
DecayedPayloadNORAD 3216
COSMOS 217 is a Russia (CIS / former USSR) payload satellite, launched on April 24, 1968. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
Launch
- Launch date
- April 24, 1968 at 04:00 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
- Launched by
- Tsiklon-2A →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- I2M 1
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 1,400 kg
- Dimensions
- Ø1.8 × 4.2 m
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1968-036A
- NORAD catalog №
- 3216
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- April 26, 1968
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- April 26, 1968
- Time in service
- 2 days
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed