Payload
COSMOS 261
DecayedPayloadLEO
COSMOS 261 is a Russia (CIS / former USSR) payload satellite, launched on December 19, 1968 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- December 19, 1968 at 11:55 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia
- Launched by
- Kosmos 11K63 →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- DS-U2-GK 1
- Launch record
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Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 213 km
- Periapsis
- 159 km
- Inclination
- 70.98°
- Orbital period
- 88.21 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 343.9 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1968-117A
- NORAD catalog №
- 3624
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- February 12, 1969
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- February 12, 1969
- Time in service
- 55 days
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed