Payload
COSMOS 523
DecayedPayloadLEONORAD 6222
COSMOS 523 is a Russia (CIS / former USSR) payload satellite, launched on October 5, 1972 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
Launch
- Launch date
- October 5, 1972 at 11:30 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia
- Launched by
- Kosmos 11K63 →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- DS-P1-Yu 57
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 158 km
- Periapsis
- 158 km
- Inclination
- 71°
- Orbital period
- 87.65 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 322.1 kg
- Dimensions
- 1.8 × 1.2 × 1.8 m
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1972-078A
- NORAD catalog №
- 6222
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- March 7, 1973
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- March 7, 1973
- Time in service
- 153 days
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed