Payload
COSMOS 242
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COSMOS 242 is a Russia (CIS / former USSR) payload satellite, launched on September 20, 1968 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- September 20, 1968 at 02:39 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia
- Launched by
- Kosmos 11K63 →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- DS-P1-I 4
- Launch record
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Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 160 km
- Periapsis
- 160 km
- Inclination
- 70.94°
- Orbital period
- 87.69 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 200 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1968-079A
- NORAD catalog №
- 3414
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- November 13, 1968
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- November 13, 1968
- Time in service
- 54 days
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed