Payload
COSMOS 2568
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COSMOS 2568 is a Ministry of Defense payload satellite, launched on March 29, 2023 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- March 29, 2023 at 07:57 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia
- Launched by
- Soyuz 2.1v Volga →
- Operator
- Russian Space Forces
- Mission
- Kosmos 2568 (EO MKA-4)
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 141 km
- Periapsis
- 130 km
- Inclination
- 96.33°
- Orbital period
- 87.19 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Ministry of Defense
- Manufacturer
- Unknown
- Users
- Military
- Launch mass
- 520 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2023-045A
- NORAD catalog №
- 56091
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- January 3, 2025
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- January 3, 2025
- Time in service
- 1.8 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed