Payload
COSMOS 516
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COSMOS 516 is a Russia (CIS / former USSR) payload satellite, launched on August 21, 1972 into LEO.
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Launch
- Launch date
- August 21, 1972 at 10:36 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
- Launched by
- Tsiklon-2 →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- US-A 4
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 1,011 km
- Periapsis
- 933 km
- Inclination
- 64.81°
- Orbital period
- 104.51 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 1,250 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1972-066A
- NORAD catalog №
- 6154
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Radar cross-section
- 2.4995 m²
- Status
- active