Payload
COSMOS 482 DESCENT CRAFT
DecayedPayloadLEO
A catalogued spacecraft payload.
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Launch
- Launch date
- March 31, 1972 at 04:02 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
- Launched by
- Molniya-M 2BL →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- Venera-9a
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 166 km
- Periapsis
- 120 km
- Inclination
- 51.95°
- Orbital period
- 87.34 min
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1972-023E
- NORAD catalog №
- 6073
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Radar cross-section
- 0.7082 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- May 10, 2025
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- May 10, 2025
- Time in service
- 53.1 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed