Payload
COSMOS 539
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COSMOS 539 is a Russia (CIS / former USSR) payload satellite, launched on December 21, 1972 into LEO.
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Launch
- Launch date
- December 21, 1972 at 02:05 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia
- Launched by
- Kosmos-3M (11K65M) →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- Sfera 9
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 1,378 km
- Periapsis
- 1,342 km
- Inclination
- 74.02°
- Orbital period
- 112.9 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 594.65 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1972-102A
- NORAD catalog №
- 6319
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Radar cross-section
- 2.2929 m²
- Status
- active