Payload
COSMOS 40
DecayedPayloadLEO
COSMOS 40 is a Russia (CIS / former USSR) payload satellite, launched on August 18, 1964 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- August 18, 1964 at 06:05 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
- Launched by
- Scout X-4A →
- Operator
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Mission
- Reentry-4A
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 243 km
- Periapsis
- 169 km
- Inclination
- 56.1°
- Orbital period
- 88.62 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 49.55 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1964-046C
- NORAD catalog №
- 855
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- November 18, 1964
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- November 18, 1964
- Time in service
- 92 days
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed