Payload
COSMOS 544
DecayedPayloadLEO
COSMOS 544 is a Russia (CIS / former USSR) payload satellite, launched on January 20, 1973 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- January 20, 1973 at 03:36 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia
- Launched by
- Kosmos-3M (11K65M) →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- Tselina-O 17
- Launch record
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Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 147 km
- Periapsis
- 130 km
- Inclination
- 73.96°
- Orbital period
- 87.26 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 867.2 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1973-003A
- NORAD catalog №
- 6343
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Radar cross-section
- 5.1984 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- June 15, 1980
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- June 15, 1980
- Time in service
- 7.4 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed