Payload
COSMOS 557
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COSMOS 557 is a Russia (CIS / former USSR) payload satellite, launched on May 11, 1973 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- May 11, 1973 at 12:20 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
- Launched by
- Proton-K →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- Salyut-3a
- Launch record
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Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 178 km
- Periapsis
- 163 km
- Inclination
- 51.6°
- Orbital period
- 87.91 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 18,334.99 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1973-026A
- NORAD catalog №
- 6498
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- May 22, 1973
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- May 22, 1973
- Time in service
- 11 days
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed