Payload
COSMOS 461
DecayedPayloadLEO
COSMOS 461 is a Russia (CIS / former USSR) payload satellite, launched on December 2, 1971 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- December 2, 1971 at 05:30 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia
- Launched by
- Kosmos-3M (11K65M) →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- DS-U2-MT
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 160 km
- Periapsis
- 150 km
- Inclination
- 69.2°
- Orbital period
- 87.59 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 673.93 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1971-105A
- NORAD catalog №
- 5643
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Radar cross-section
- 4.6922 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- February 21, 1979
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- February 21, 1979
- Time in service
- 7.2 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed