Payload
COSMOS 252
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COSMOS 252 is a Russia (CIS / former USSR) payload satellite, launched on November 1, 1968 into MEO.
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Launch
- Launch date
- November 1, 1968 at 12:27 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
- Launched by
- Tsiklon-2A →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- I2P 2
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- MEO
- Apoapsis
- 2,085 km
- Periapsis
- 532 km
- Inclination
- 62.32°
- Orbital period
- 111.78 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 1,400 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1968-097A
- NORAD catalog №
- 3530
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Radar cross-section
- 4.5805 m²
- Status
- active