Payload
COSMOS 616
DecayedPayloadLEO
A catalogued spacecraft payload.
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Launch
- Launch date
- December 17, 1973 at 12:00 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia
- Launched by
- Soyuz 11A511M →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- Zenit-4MT 5
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 323 km
- Periapsis
- 203 km
- Inclination
- 72.86°
- Orbital period
- 89.77 min
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1973-102A
- NORAD catalog №
- 6979
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- December 28, 1973
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- December 28, 1973
- Time in service
- 11 days
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed