Payload
SPUTNIK 5
DecayedPayloadLEO
Korabl-Sputnik 2, also known as Sputnik 5 in the West, was a Soviet artificial satellite, and the third test flight of the Vostok spacecraft. It was the first spaceflight to send animals into orbit and return them safely back to Earth, including two Soviet space dogs, Belka and Strelka. Launched on 19 August 1960, it led to the first human orbital flight, Vostok 1, which was launched less than eight months later.
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Launch
- Launch date
- August 19, 1960 at 08:44 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
- Launched by
- Vostok 8K72 →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- Korabl'-Sputnik-2
- Launch record
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Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 307 km
- Periapsis
- 307 km
- Inclination
- 64.9°
- Orbital period
- 90.67 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 4,549.06 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1960-011A
- NORAD catalog №
- 55
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- August 20, 1960
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- August 20, 1960
- Time in service
- 1 days
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed