Payload
PROTON 4
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PROTON 4 is a Russia (CIS / former USSR) payload satellite, launched on November 16, 1968 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- November 16, 1968 at 11:40 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
- Launched by
- Proton-K →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- Proton-4
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 159 km
- Periapsis
- 147 km
- Inclination
- 51.51°
- Orbital period
- 87.54 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 17,000 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1968-103A
- NORAD catalog №
- 3544
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- July 24, 1969
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- July 24, 1969
- Time in service
- 250 days
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed