Payload
COSMOS 421
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COSMOS 421 is a Russia (CIS / former USSR) payload satellite, launched on May 19, 1971 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- May 19, 1971 at 10:20 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia
- Launched by
- Kosmos 11K63 →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- DS-P1-Yu 42
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 166 km
- Periapsis
- 156 km
- Inclination
- 70.93°
- Orbital period
- 87.71 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 322.1 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1971-044A
- NORAD catalog №
- 5232
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- November 8, 1971
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- November 8, 1971
- Time in service
- 173 days
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed