Payload
COSMOS 868
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COSMOS 868 is a Russia (CIS / former USSR) payload satellite, launched on November 26, 1976 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- November 26, 1976 at 02:30 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
- Launched by
- Tsiklon-2 →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- US-P 4
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 212 km
- Periapsis
- 191 km
- Inclination
- 64.99°
- Orbital period
- 88.52 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 4,112.98 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1976-113A
- NORAD catalog №
- 9561
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Radar cross-section
- 31.9467 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- July 8, 1978
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- July 8, 1978
- Time in service
- 1.6 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed