Payload
COSMOS 687
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COSMOS 687 is a Russia (CIS / former USSR) payload satellite, launched on October 11, 1974 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- October 11, 1974 at 11:29 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia
- Launched by
- Kosmos-3M (11K65M) →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- Taifun-1 2
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 190 km
- Periapsis
- 172 km
- Inclination
- 73.97°
- Orbital period
- 88.11 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 545.09 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1974-076A
- NORAD catalog №
- 7469
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Radar cross-section
- 3.44 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- February 5, 1978
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- February 5, 1978
- Time in service
- 3.3 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed