Payload
COSMOS 73
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COSMOS 73 is a Russia (CIS / former USSR) payload satellite, launched on July 16, 1965 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- July 16, 1965 at 03:31 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
- Launched by
- Kosmos 65S3 →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- Strela-1 15 to 19
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 180 km
- Periapsis
- 176 km
- Inclination
- 56.05°
- Orbital period
- 88.05 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 49.55 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1965-053C
- NORAD catalog №
- 1443
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- March 20, 1974
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- March 20, 1974
- Time in service
- 8.7 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed