Payload
COSMOS 256
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COSMOS 256 is a Russia (CIS / former USSR) payload satellite, launched on November 30, 1968 into LEO.
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Launch
- Launch date
- November 30, 1968 at 12:00 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia
- Launched by
- Kosmos-3M (11K65M) →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- Sfera 3
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 1,222 km
- Periapsis
- 1,172 km
- Inclination
- 74.05°
- Orbital period
- 109.35 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 644.2 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1968-106A
- NORAD catalog №
- 3576
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Radar cross-section
- 2.8184 m²
- Status
- active