Payload
SPUTNIK 9
DecayedPayloadLEO
Korabl-Sputnik 4 or Vostok-3KA No.1, also known as Sputnik 9 in the West, was a Soviet spacecraft which was launched on 9 March 1961. Carrying the mannequin Ivan Ivanovich, a dog named Chernushka, some mice and the first guinea pig in space, it was a test flight of the Vostok spacecraft.
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Launch
- Launch date
- March 9, 1961 at 06:29 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
- Launched by
- Vostok-K →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Launch record
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Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 213 km
- Periapsis
- 121 km
- Inclination
- 64.93°
- Orbital period
- 87.83 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 4,658.08 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1961-008A
- NORAD catalog №
- 91
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- March 9, 1961
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- March 9, 1961
- Time in service
- 0 days
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed