Payload
COSMOS 479
DecayedPayloadLEO
COSMOS 479 is a Russia (CIS / former USSR) payload satellite, launched on March 22, 1972 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- March 22, 1972 at 08:30 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia
- Launched by
- Kosmos-3M (11K65M) →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- Tselina-O 14
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 183 km
- Periapsis
- 173 km
- Inclination
- 74.01°
- Orbital period
- 88.05 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 867.2 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1972-017A
- NORAD catalog №
- 5894
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Radar cross-section
- 4.4792 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- April 13, 1980
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- April 13, 1980
- Time in service
- 8.1 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed