Payload
INTERCOSMOS 16
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INTERCOSMOS 16 is a Russia (CIS / former USSR) payload satellite, launched on July 27, 1976 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- July 27, 1976 at 05:21 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Kapustin Yar, Russia
- Launched by
- Kosmos-3M (11K65M) →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- Tselina-O 32
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 247 km
- Periapsis
- 242 km
- Inclination
- 50.54°
- Orbital period
- 89.39 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 545.09 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1976-076A
- NORAD catalog №
- 9055
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Radar cross-section
- 6.2492 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- July 10, 1979
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- July 10, 1979
- Time in service
- 3.0 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed