Payload
COSMOS 494
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COSMOS 494 is a Russia (CIS / former USSR) payload satellite, launched on June 23, 1972 into LEO.
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Launch
- Launch date
- June 23, 1972 at 09:24 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia
- Launched by
- Kosmos-3M (11K65M) →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- Strela-2M 5
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 778 km
- Periapsis
- 762 km
- Inclination
- 74.06°
- Orbital period
- 100.24 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 743.31 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1972-043A
- NORAD catalog №
- 6059
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Radar cross-section
- 2.282 m²
- Status
- active