Payload
SPUTNIK 6
DecayedPayloadLEO
Korabl-Sputnik 3 or Vostok-1K No.3, also known as Sputnik 6 in the West, was a Soviet spacecraft which was launched in 1960. It was a test flight of the Vostok spacecraft, carrying two dogs: Pcholka and Mushka, mice, rats, rabbits, flies, plants, as well as a television camera and scientific instruments.
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Launch
- Launch date
- December 1, 1960 at 07:30 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
- Launched by
- Vostok 8K72 →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- Korabl'-Sputnik-3
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 218 km
- Periapsis
- 171 km
- Inclination
- 65°
- Orbital period
- 88.38 min
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1960-017A
- NORAD catalog №
- 65
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- December 2, 1960
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- December 2, 1960
- Time in service
- 1 days
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed