Names | Zenit 2-8 |
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Mission type | Optical imaging reconnaissance Radiation |
Operator | Soviet space program |
COSPAR ID | 1963-006A |
SATCAT no. | 554 |
Mission duration | 8 days |
Spacecraft properties | |
Spacecraft type | Zenit-2 |
Manufacturer | OKB-1 |
Launch mass | 4730 kg[1] |
Start of mission | |
Launch date | 21 March 1963, 08:24:00 GMT |
Rocket | Vostok-2 |
Launch site | Baikonur 1/5 |
Contractor | OKB-1 |
End of mission | |
Disposal | Recovered |
Landing date | 29 March 1963 |
Landing site | Steppe in Kazakhstan |
Orbital parameters | |
Reference system | Geocentric[2] |
Regime | Low Earth |
Perigee altitude | 192 km |
Apogee altitude | 324km |
Inclination | 65.0° |
Period | 89.8 minutes |
Epoch | 21 March 1963 |
Zenit programme Zenit-2 |
Kosmos 13 (Russian: Космос 13 meaning Cosmos 13) or Zenit-2 No.8 was a Soviet optical film-return reconnaissance satellite launched in 1963. A Zenit-2 spacecraft, Kosmos 13 was the eighth of eighty-one such satellites to be launched.[3][4]
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