Payload
COSMOS 159
DecayedPayloadHEO
COSMOS 159 is a Russia (CIS / former USSR) payload satellite, launched on May 16, 1967 into HEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- May 16, 1967 at 09:43 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
- Launched by
- Molniya-M 2BL →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- Ye-6LS 111
- Launch record
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Orbit
- Orbit regime
- HEO
- Apoapsis
- 60,752 km
- Periapsis
- 164 km
- Inclination
- 51.83°
- Orbital period
- 1172.66 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 1,612 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1967-046A
- NORAD catalog №
- 2805
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- December 6, 1977
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- December 6, 1977
- Time in service
- 10.6 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed