Payload
COSMOS 163
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COSMOS 163 is a Russia (CIS / former USSR) payload satellite, launched on June 5, 1967 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- June 5, 1967 at 05:03 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Kapustin Yar, Russia
- Launched by
- Kosmos 11K63 →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- DS-U2-MP 2
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 201 km
- Periapsis
- 171 km
- Inclination
- 48.37°
- Orbital period
- 88.21 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 280 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1967-056A
- NORAD catalog №
- 2832
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- October 11, 1967
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- October 11, 1967
- Time in service
- 128 days
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed