Payload
COSMOS 6 (SPUTNIK 16)
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COSMOS 6 (SPUTNIK 16) is a Russia (CIS / former USSR) payload satellite, launched on June 30, 1962 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- June 30, 1962 at 04:00 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Kapustin Yar, Russia
- Launched by
- Kosmos-2I →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- DS-P1 1
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 189 km
- Periapsis
- 189 km
- Inclination
- 48.95°
- Orbital period
- 88.28 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 351.83 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1962-028A
- NORAD catalog №
- 338
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- September 8, 1962
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- September 8, 1962
- Time in service
- 70 days
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed