Payload
COSMOS 249
activePayloadMEONORAD 3504
COSMOS 249 is a Russia (CIS / former USSR) payload satellite, launched on October 20, 1968 into MEO.
Launch
- Launch date
- October 20, 1968 at 04:02 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
- Launched by
- Tsiklon-2A →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- I2P 1
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- MEO
- Apoapsis
- 2,045 km
- Periapsis
- 502 km
- Inclination
- 62.34°
- Orbital period
- 111.01 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 1,400 kg
- Dimensions
- Ø1.5 × 4 m
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1968-091A
- NORAD catalog №
- 3504
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Radar cross-section
- 4.7964 m²
- Status
- active