Payload
COSMOS 226
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COSMOS 226 is a Russia (CIS / former USSR) payload satellite, launched on June 12, 1968 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- June 12, 1968 at 01:14 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia
- Launched by
- Vostok 8A92M →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- Meteor-1 10
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 138 km
- Periapsis
- 127 km
- Inclination
- 81.13°
- Orbital period
- 87.14 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 1,280 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1968-049A
- NORAD catalog №
- 3282
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Radar cross-section
- 19.083 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- October 18, 1983
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- October 18, 1983
- Time in service
- 15.3 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed