Payload
COSMOS 542
DecayedPayloadLEO
COSMOS 542 is a Russia (CIS / former USSR) payload satellite, launched on December 28, 1972 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- December 28, 1972 at 11:00 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia
- Launched by
- Vostok 8A92M →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- Tselina-D 4
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 159 km
- Periapsis
- 148 km
- Inclination
- 81.15°
- Orbital period
- 87.56 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 1,982.16 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1972-106A
- NORAD catalog №
- 6328
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Radar cross-section
- 14.3916 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- October 9, 1983
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- October 9, 1983
- Time in service
- 10.8 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed