Payload
SPUTNIK 3
DecayedPayloadLEO
Sputnik 3 was a Soviet satellite launched on 15 May 1958 from Baikonur Cosmodrome by a modified R-7/SS-6 ICBM. The scientific satellite carried a large array of instruments for geophysical research of the upper atmosphere and near space.
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Launch
- Launch date
- May 15, 1958 at 07:00 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
- Launched by
- Sputnik 8A91 →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- D1- 2
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 255 km
- Periapsis
- 139 km
- Inclination
- 65.06°
- Orbital period
- 88.43 min
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1958-004B
- NORAD catalog №
- 8
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Radar cross-section
- 11.84 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- April 6, 1960
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- April 6, 1960
- Time in service
- 1.9 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed