Payload
COSMOS 492
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COSMOS 492 is a Russia (CIS / former USSR) payload satellite, launched on June 9, 1972 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- June 9, 1972 at 06:59 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
- Launched by
- Voskhod →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- Zenit-4M 36
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 308 km
- Periapsis
- 183 km
- Inclination
- 64.97°
- Orbital period
- 89.41 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 6,243.81 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1972-040A
- NORAD catalog №
- 6049
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- June 22, 1972
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- June 22, 1972
- Time in service
- 13 days
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed