Payload
COSMOS 268
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COSMOS 268 is a Russia (CIS / former USSR) payload satellite, launched on March 5, 1969 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- March 5, 1969 at 05:25 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Kapustin Yar, Russia
- Launched by
- Kosmos-3M (11K65M) →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- Tselina-O 4
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 238 km
- Periapsis
- 154 km
- Inclination
- 48.33°
- Orbital period
- 88.42 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 200 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1969-020A
- NORAD catalog №
- 3773
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- May 9, 1970
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- May 9, 1970
- Time in service
- 1.2 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed