Payload
COSMOS 228
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COSMOS 228 is a Russia (CIS / former USSR) payload satellite, launched on June 21, 1968 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- June 21, 1968 at 12:00 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
- Launched by
- Voskhod →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- Zenit-2M 2
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 230 km
- Periapsis
- 199 km
- Inclination
- 51.62°
- Orbital period
- 88.79 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 6,030 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1968-053A
- NORAD catalog №
- 3298
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- July 3, 1968
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- July 3, 1968
- Time in service
- 12 days
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed