Payload
COSMOS 616
DecayedPayloadLEONORAD 6979
COSMOS 616 is a Russia (CIS / former USSR) payload satellite, launched on December 17, 1973 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
Launch
- Launch date
- December 17, 1973 at 12:00 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia
- Launched by
- Soyuz 11A511M →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- Zenit-4MT 5
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 323 km
- Periapsis
- 203 km
- Inclination
- 72.86°
- Orbital period
- 89.77 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 5,847.37 kg
- Dimensions
- Ø2.4 × 5.89 m
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1973-102A
- NORAD catalog №
- 6979
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- December 28, 1973
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- December 28, 1973
- Time in service
- 11 days
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed