Payload
COSMOS 501
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COSMOS 501 is a Russia (CIS / former USSR) payload satellite, launched on July 12, 1972 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- July 12, 1972 at 05:59 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Kapustin Yar, Russia
- Launched by
- Kosmos 11K63 →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- DS-P1-Yu 56
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 234 km
- Periapsis
- 150 km
- Inclination
- 48.36°
- Orbital period
- 88.33 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 247.77 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1972-054A
- NORAD catalog №
- 6099
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- May 9, 1974
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- May 9, 1974
- Time in service
- 1.8 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed