Payload
COSMOS 398
DecayedPayloadLEONORAD 4966
COSMOS 398 is a Russia (CIS / former USSR) payload satellite, launched on February 26, 1971 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
Launch
- Launch date
- February 26, 1971 at 05:06 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
- Launched by
- Soyuz 11A511L →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- T2K 2
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 156 km
- Periapsis
- 123 km
- Inclination
- 51.36°
- Orbital period
- 87.28 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 5,832.51 kg
- Dimensions
- 5.2 × 3 × 5.2 m
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1971-016A
- NORAD catalog №
- 4966
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Radar cross-section
- 13.0021 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- December 10, 1995
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- December 10, 1995
- Time in service
- 24.8 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed