Payload
COSMOS 68
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COSMOS 68 is a Russia (CIS / former USSR) payload satellite, launched on June 15, 1965 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- June 15, 1965 at 09:43 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
- Launched by
- Vostok 8A92 →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- Zenit-2 28
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 319 km
- Periapsis
- 201 km
- Inclination
- 65.02°
- Orbital period
- 89.71 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 4,707.63 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1965-046A
- NORAD catalog №
- 1404
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- June 23, 1965
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- June 23, 1965
- Time in service
- 8 days
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed