Payload
COSMOS 281
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COSMOS 281 is a Russia (CIS / former USSR) payload satellite, launched on May 13, 1969 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- May 13, 1969 at 09:15 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia
- Launched by
- Voskhod →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- Zenit-2 74
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 294 km
- Periapsis
- 197 km
- Inclination
- 65.41°
- Orbital period
- 89.42 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 4,750 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1969-042A
- NORAD catalog №
- 3939
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- May 21, 1969
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- May 21, 1969
- Time in service
- 8 days
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed