Weather
ELEKTRON 4
DecayedWeatherHEO
ELEKTRON 4 is a Russia (CIS / former USSR) weather satellite, launched on July 10, 1964 into HEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- July 10, 1964 at 09:51 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
- Launched by
- Vostok-K →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- Elektron-3 &4
- Launch record
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Orbit
- Orbit regime
- HEO
- Apoapsis
- 64,925 km
- Periapsis
- 64 km
- Inclination
- 65.85°
- Orbital period
- 1271.23 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 440.04 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1964-038B
- NORAD catalog №
- 830
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Radar cross-section
- 8.3468 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- October 12, 1983
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- October 12, 1983
- Time in service
- 19.3 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed