Payload
COSMOS 2 (SPUTNIK 12)
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COSMOS 2 (SPUTNIK 12) is a Russia (CIS / former USSR) payload satellite, launched on April 6, 1962 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- April 6, 1962 at 05:15 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
- Launched by
- Kosmos-2I →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- 1MS 1
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 231 km
- Periapsis
- 157 km
- Inclination
- 48.86°
- Orbital period
- 88.37 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 282.46 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1962-009A
- NORAD catalog №
- 269
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- August 23, 1963
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- August 23, 1963
- Time in service
- 1.4 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed