Payload
COSMOS 72
DecayedPayloadLEO
A catalogued spacecraft payload.
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Launch
- Launch date
- July 16, 1965 at 03:31 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
- Launched by
- Kosmos 65S3 →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- Strela-1 15 to 19
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 176 km
- Periapsis
- 165 km
- Inclination
- 55.97°
- Orbital period
- 87.9 min
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1965-053B
- NORAD catalog №
- 1442
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Radar cross-section
- 0.1952 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- August 24, 1979
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- August 24, 1979
- Time in service
- 14.1 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed