Kosmos 611
Template:Infobox Spacecraft Kosmos 611 (Russian: Космос 611 meaning Cosmos 611), known before launch as DS-P1-Yu #64, was a Soviet satellite which was launched in 1973 as part of the Dnepropetrovsk Sputnik programme. It was a 400-kilogram (880 lb) spacecraft, which was built by the Yuzhnoye Design Bureau, and was used as a radar calibration target for anti-ballistic missile tests.[1]
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Kosmos 611 was successfully launched into low Earth orbit at 09:29:58 UTC on 28 November 1973.[2] The launch took place from Site 133/1 at the Plesetsk Cosmodrome,[3] and used a Kosmos-2I 63SM carrier rocket. Upon reaching orbit, the satellite was assigned its Kosmos designation, and received the International Designator 1973-094A.[4] The North American Aerospace Defense Command assigned it the catalogue number 06952.
Kosmos 611 was the sixty-seventh of seventy nine DS-P1-Yu satellites to be launched,[1] and the sixty-first of seventy two to successfully reach orbit.[5] It was operated in an orbit with a perigee of 264 kilometres (164 mi), an apogee of 466 kilometres (290 mi), 70.9 degrees of inclination, and an orbital period of 91.8 minutes.[6] It remained in orbit until it decayed and reentered the atmosphere on 19 June 1974.[6]
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References
- ^ a b Wade, Mark. "DS-P1-Yu". Encyclopedia Astronautica. Retrieved 2009-09-01.
- ^ Wade, Mark. "Kosmos 2". Encyclopedia Astronautica. Retrieved 2009-09-01.
- ^ McDowell, Jonathan. "Launch Log". Jonathan's Space Page. Retrieved 2009-09-01.
- ^ "Cosmos 611". NSSDC Master Catalog. US National Space Science Data Center. Retrieved 2009-09-01.
- ^ Krebs, Gunter. "DS-P1-Yu (11F618)". Gunter's Space Page. Retrieved 2009-09-01.
- ^ a b McDowell, Jonathan. "Satellite Catalog". Jonathan's Space Page. Retrieved 2009-09-01.
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