Payload
COSMOS 359
DecayedPayloadLEO
COSMOS 359 is a Russia (CIS / former USSR) payload satellite, launched on August 22, 1970 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- August 22, 1970 at 05:06 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
- Launched by
- Molniya-M 2BL →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- Venera-8a
- Launch record
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Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 249 km
- Periapsis
- 164 km
- Inclination
- 51.12°
- Orbital period
- 88.63 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 1,169.47 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1970-065A
- NORAD catalog №
- 4501
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- November 6, 1970
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- November 6, 1970
- Time in service
- 76 days
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed