Payload
COSMOS 280
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COSMOS 280 is a Russia (CIS / former USSR) payload satellite, launched on April 23, 1969 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- April 23, 1969 at 09:55 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
- Launched by
- Voskhod →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- Zenit-4M 3
- Launch record
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Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 256 km
- Periapsis
- 197 km
- Inclination
- 51.57°
- Orbital period
- 89.04 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 6,000 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1969-040A
- NORAD catalog №
- 3906
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- May 6, 1969
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- May 6, 1969
- Time in service
- 13 days
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed