Payload
COSMOS 43
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COSMOS 43 is a Russia (CIS / former USSR) payload satellite, launched on August 22, 1964 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- August 22, 1964 at 07:21 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Kapustin Yar, Russia
- Launched by
- Molniya 8K78 →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- Molniya-1 1b
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 222 km
- Periapsis
- 168 km
- Inclination
- 48.9°
- Orbital period
- 88.4 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 50 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1964-050C
- NORAD catalog №
- 867
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- December 27, 1965
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- December 27, 1965
- Time in service
- 1.3 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed