Payload
COSMOS 496
DecayedPayloadLEO
COSMOS 496 is a Russia (CIS / former USSR) payload satellite, launched on June 26, 1972 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- June 26, 1972 at 02:53 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
- Launched by
- Soyuz →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 253 km
- Periapsis
- 177 km
- Inclination
- 51.58°
- Orbital period
- 88.8 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 6,511.4 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1972-045A
- NORAD catalog №
- 6066
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- July 2, 1972
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- July 2, 1972
- Time in service
- 6 days
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed