Engineering:Kosmos 396
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Mission type | Reconnaissance |
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COSPAR ID | 1971-014A |
SATCAT no. | 4959 |
Mission duration | ~13 days |
Orbits completed | ~210 |
Spacecraft properties | |
Spacecraft type | Zenit-4M |
Manufacturer | OKB-1 |
Launch mass | 6,300 kilograms (13,900 lb) |
Start of mission | |
Launch date | 18 February 1971, 13:59 | UTC
Rocket | Voskhod 11A57 |
Launch site | Plesetsk 43/3[1] |
End of mission | |
Landing date | 3 March 1971 |
Orbital parameters | |
Reference system | Geocentric |
Regime | Low Earth |
Eccentricity | 0.00738[2] |
Perigee altitude | 212 kilometres (132 mi)[2] |
Apogee altitude | 310 kilometres (190 mi)[2] |
Inclination | 65.4 degrees[2] |
Period | 89.4 minutes[2] |
Epoch | 17 February 1971, 19:00:00 UTC[2] |
Kosmos 396 (Russian: Космос 396 meaning Cosmos 396) was a test flight of the Zenit-4M military surveillance satellite. The Zenit satellite's purpose was high resolution photographic reconnaissance. This particular test flight returned a capsule containing exposed film.[1]
See also
- 1971 in spaceflight
References
- ↑ Jump up to: 1.0 1.1 "Zenit-4M". Archived from the original on 3 January 2010. https://web.archive.org/web/20100103022016/http://astronautix.com/craft/zenit4m.htm. Retrieved 10 November 2010.
- ↑ Jump up to: 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 "NASA - NSSDCA - Spacecraft - Trajectory Details". https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraft/display.action?id=1971-014A.
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