Payload
COSMOS 55
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COSMOS 55 is a Russia (CIS / former USSR) payload satellite, launched on February 21, 1965 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- February 21, 1965 at 11:00 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
- Launched by
- Kosmos 65S3 →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- Strela-1 9,10,11
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 261 km
- Periapsis
- 183 km
- Inclination
- 55.98°
- Orbital period
- 88.94 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 49.55 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1965-011B
- NORAD catalog №
- 1090
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- February 2, 1968
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- February 2, 1968
- Time in service
- 2.9 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed