Payload
COSMOS 4 (SPUTNIK 14)
DecayedPayloadNORAD 287
COSMOS 4 (SPUTNIK 14) is a Russia (CIS / former USSR) payload satellite, launched on April 26, 1962. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
Launch
- Launch date
- April 26, 1962 at 10:02 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
- Launched by
- Vostok-K →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- Zenit-2 2
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 4,558.97 kg
- Dimensions
- Ø2.4 × 4.3 m
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1962-014A
- NORAD catalog №
- 287
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- April 29, 1962
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- April 29, 1962
- Time in service
- 3 days
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed