Payload
COSMOS 250
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COSMOS 250 is a Russia (CIS / former USSR) payload satellite, launched on October 30, 1968 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- October 30, 1968 at 10:00 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia
- Launched by
- Kosmos-3M (11K65M) →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- Tselina-O 3
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 192 km
- Periapsis
- 186 km
- Inclination
- 73.94°
- Orbital period
- 88.27 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 867.2 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1968-095A
- NORAD catalog №
- 3526
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Radar cross-section
- 6.8021 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- February 15, 1978
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- February 15, 1978
- Time in service
- 9.3 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed