Payload
COSMOS 551
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COSMOS 551 is a Russia (CIS / former USSR) payload satellite, launched on March 6, 1973 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- March 6, 1973 at 09:20 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
- Launched by
- Voskhod →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- Zenit-4M 47
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 385 km
- Periapsis
- 170 km
- Inclination
- 64.98°
- Orbital period
- 90.06 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 6,243.81 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1973-012A
- NORAD catalog №
- 6378
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- March 20, 1973
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- March 20, 1973
- Time in service
- 14 days
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed