Payload
COSMOS 659
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COSMOS 659 is a Russia (CIS / former USSR) payload satellite, launched on June 13, 1974 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- June 13, 1974 at 12:29 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia
- Launched by
- Voskhod →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- Zenit-4MK 27
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 330 km
- Periapsis
- 148 km
- Inclination
- 62.81°
- Orbital period
- 89.28 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 6,243.81 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1974-043A
- NORAD catalog №
- 7334
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- June 26, 1974
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- June 26, 1974
- Time in service
- 13 days
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed