Payload
COSMOS 561
DecayedPayloadLEO
COSMOS 561 is a Russia (CIS / former USSR) payload satellite, launched on May 25, 1973 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- May 25, 1973 at 09:15 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia
- Launched by
- Kosmos-3M (11K65M) →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- Zaliv 12
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 284 km
- Periapsis
- 203 km
- Inclination
- 65.41°
- Orbital period
- 89.37 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 5,847.37 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1973-033A
- NORAD catalog №
- 6657
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- June 6, 1973
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- June 6, 1973
- Time in service
- 12 days
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed