Payload
COSMOS 503
DecayedPayloadLEO
COSMOS 503 is a Russia (CIS / former USSR) payload satellite, launched on July 19, 1972 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- July 19, 1972 at 01:45 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia
- Launched by
- Voskhod →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- Zenit-4M 39
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 302 km
- Periapsis
- 169 km
- Inclination
- 65.37°
- Orbital period
- 89.21 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 6,243.81 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1972-056A
- NORAD catalog №
- 6114
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- August 1, 1972
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- August 1, 1972
- Time in service
- 13 days
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed