Payload
COSMOS 742
DecayedPayloadLEONORAD 7900
COSMOS 742 is a Russia (CIS / former USSR) payload satellite, launched on June 3, 1975 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
Launch
- Launch date
- June 3, 1975 at 09:00 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia
- Launched by
- Kosmos-3M (11K65M) →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- DS-U3-IK 5
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 319 km
- Periapsis
- 147 km
- Inclination
- 62.82°
- Orbital period
- 89.16 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 6,243.81 kg
- Dimensions
- Ø2.4 × 6.49 m
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1975-048A
- NORAD catalog №
- 7900
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- June 15, 1975
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- June 15, 1975
- Time in service
- 12 days
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed