Payload
COSMOS 555
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COSMOS 555 is a Russia (CIS / former USSR) payload satellite, launched on April 25, 1973 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- April 25, 1973 at 09:10 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia
- Launched by
- Tsiklon-2 →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- US-A 5
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 218 km
- Periapsis
- 206 km
- Inclination
- 81.33°
- Orbital period
- 88.73 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 5,847.37 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1973-024A
- NORAD catalog №
- 6440
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- May 7, 1973
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- May 7, 1973
- Time in service
- 12 days
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed