Payload
COSMOS 272
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COSMOS 272 is a Russia (CIS / former USSR) payload satellite, launched on March 17, 1969 into LEO.
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Launch
- Launch date
- March 17, 1969 at 04:40 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia
- Launched by
- Kosmos-3M (11K65M) →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- Sfera 4
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 1,206 km
- Periapsis
- 1,179 km
- Inclination
- 73.99°
- Orbital period
- 109.26 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 644.2 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1969-024A
- NORAD catalog №
- 3818
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Radar cross-section
- 2.489 m²
- Status
- active