| Mission type | Weather |
|---|---|
| COSPAR ID | 1967-039A |
| SATCAT no. | 02762 |
| Mission duration | 13 months |
| Spacecraft properties | |
| Spacecraft type | Meteor |
| Manufacturer | VNIIEM |
| Launch mass | 4730 kg[1] |
| Start of mission | |
| Launch date | 27 April 1967, 12:50:02 GMT |
| Rocket | Vostok-2M (8A92M) s/n R15000-22 |
| Launch site | Plesetsk, Site 41/1 |
| Contractor | OKB-1 |
| End of mission | |
| Last contact | Late August 1967 |
| Decay date | 23 October 1989 |
| Orbital parameters | |
| Reference system | Geocentric[2] |
| Regime | Low Earth |
| Perigee altitude | 593 km |
| Apogee altitude | 635 km |
| Inclination | 81.17° |
| Period | 96.96 minutes |
| Epoch | 27 April 1967 |
Kosmos 156 (Russian: Космос 156) was a Soviet weather satellite launched on 27 April 1967, one of eleven weather satellites launched by the Soviet Union between 1964 and 1969.[3] It formed part of the experimental "Meteor" weather satellite system.[1] In 1969, the Kosmos satellite series was scrapped for the more modern and updated Meteor satellite.
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Trajectorywas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Hendrickx, Bart. "A History of Soviet/Russian Meteorological Satellites". Space Chronicle: JBIS 57 (2004): 56-102. Web. 17 Apr. 2016.