Payload
SPUTNIK 22
DecayedPayloadLEO
Mars 2MV-4 No.1 also known as Sputnik 22 in the West, was a Soviet spacecraft, which was launched in 1962 as part of the Mars programme, and was intended to make a flyby of Mars, and transmit images of the planet back to Earth. Due to a problem with the rocket which launched it, it was destroyed in low Earth orbit. It was the first of two Mars 2MV-4 spacecraft to be launched, the other being the Mars 1 spacecraft which was launched eight days later.
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Launch
- Launch date
- October 24, 1962 at 05:55 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
- Launched by
- Molniya 8K78 →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- Mars 1c
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 261 km
- Periapsis
- 202 km
- Inclination
- 65.11°
- Orbital period
- 89.13 min
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1962-057A
- NORAD catalog №
- 443
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- October 29, 1962
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- October 29, 1962
- Time in service
- 5 days
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed