Payload
COSMOS 5 (SPUTNIK 15)
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COSMOS 5 (SPUTNIK 15) is a Russia (CIS / former USSR) payload satellite, launched on May 28, 1962 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- May 28, 1962 at 03:00 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Kapustin Yar, Russia
- Launched by
- Kosmos-2I →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- Sputnik 15
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 271 km
- Periapsis
- 144 km
- Inclination
- 48.96°
- Orbital period
- 88.64 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 277.5 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1962-020A
- NORAD catalog №
- 297
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- May 2, 1963
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- May 2, 1963
- Time in service
- 339 days
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed