Payload
COSMOS 3 (SPUTNIK 13)
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COSMOS 3 (SPUTNIK 13) is a Russia (CIS / former USSR) payload satellite, launched on April 24, 1962 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- April 24, 1962 at 04:00 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Kapustin Yar, Russia
- Launched by
- Kosmos-2I →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- Sputnik 13
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 253 km
- Periapsis
- 193 km
- Inclination
- 48.95°
- Orbital period
- 88.96 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 327.06 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1962-013A
- NORAD catalog №
- 281
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- October 17, 1962
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- October 17, 1962
- Time in service
- 176 days
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed