Payload
COSMOS 462
DecayedPayloadLEO
COSMOS 462 is a Russia (CIS / former USSR) payload satellite, launched on December 3, 1971 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- December 3, 1971 at 01:00 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
- Launched by
- Voskhod →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- Zenit-2M 24
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 190 km
- Periapsis
- 153 km
- Inclination
- 65.66°
- Orbital period
- 87.92 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 1,400 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1971-106A
- NORAD catalog №
- 5646
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- April 4, 1975
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- April 4, 1975
- Time in service
- 3.3 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed