Names | Sputnik 10 |
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Mission type | Biological Technology |
Operator | Soviet space program |
Harvard designation | 1961 Iota 1 |
COSPAR ID | 1961-009A |
SATCAT no. | 95 |
Mission duration | 1 hour, 46 minutes |
Spacecraft properties | |
Spacecraft type | Vostok-3KA |
Manufacturer | OKB-1 |
Launch mass | 4,695 kilograms (10,351 lb)[1] |
Start of mission | |
Launch date | 25 March 1961, 05:54:00 | UTC
Rocket | Vostok-K 8K72K |
Launch site | Baikonur 1/5 |
End of mission | |
Landing date | 25 March 1961, 07:40 | UTC
Orbital parameters | |
Reference system | Geocentric |
Regime | Low Earth |
Eccentricity | 0.00501[1] |
Perigee altitude | 164 kilometres (102 mi)[1] |
Apogee altitude | 230 kilometres (140 mi)[1] |
Inclination | 64.9 degrees[1] |
Period | 88.42 minutes |
Epoch | 25 March 1961, 01:00:00 UTC[1] |
Korabl-Sputnik 5[2] (Russian: Корабль-Спутник 5 meaning Ship-Satellite 5) or Vostok-3KA No.2, also known as Sputnik 10 in the West,[3] was a Soviet spacecraft which was launched in 1961, as part of the Vostok programme. It was the last test flight of the Vostok spacecraft design prior the first crewed flight, Vostok 1. It carried the mannequin Ivan Ivanovich, a dog named Zvezdochka ("Starlet",[4] or "Little star"[1]), frogs, monkeys, mice, rats, plants, television cameras and scientific apparatus.