Payload
COSMOS 279
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COSMOS 279 is a Russia (CIS / former USSR) payload satellite, launched on April 15, 1969 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- April 15, 1969 at 05:30 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
- Launched by
- Titan IIIB →
- Operator
- United States Air Force
- Mission
- KH-8 21
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 259 km
- Periapsis
- 190 km
- Inclination
- 51.74°
- Orbital period
- 88.99 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 5,650 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1969-038A
- NORAD catalog №
- 3893
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- April 23, 1969
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- April 23, 1969
- Time in service
- 8 days
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed