Payload
COSMOS 221
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COSMOS 221 is a Russia (CIS / former USSR) payload satellite, launched on May 24, 1968 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- May 24, 1968 at 07:04 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Kapustin Yar, Russia
- Launched by
- Kosmos 11K63 →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- DS-P1-Yu 13
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 216 km
- Periapsis
- 152 km
- Inclination
- 48.33°
- Orbital period
- 88.17 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 200 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1968-043A
- NORAD catalog №
- 3269
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- August 31, 1969
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- August 31, 1969
- Time in service
- 1.3 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed