Payload
COSMOS 459
DecayedPayloadLEO
COSMOS 459 is a Russia (CIS / former USSR) payload satellite, launched on November 29, 1971 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- November 29, 1971 at 05:30 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia
- Launched by
- Kosmos-3M (11K65M) →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- DS-P1-M 5
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 163 km
- Periapsis
- 134 km
- Inclination
- 65.83°
- Orbital period
- 87.46 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 743.31 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1971-102A
- NORAD catalog №
- 5625
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- December 27, 1971
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- December 27, 1971
- Time in service
- 28 days
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed