Payload
COSMOS 291
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COSMOS 291 is a Russia (CIS / former USSR) payload satellite, launched on August 6, 1969 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- August 6, 1969 at 05:40 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
- Launched by
- Tsiklon-2 →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- IS-GVM 1
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 212 km
- Periapsis
- 118 km
- Inclination
- 62.24°
- Orbital period
- 87.78 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 1,486.62 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1969-066A
- NORAD catalog №
- 4058
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- September 8, 1969
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- September 8, 1969
- Time in service
- 33 days
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed