Mission type Optical imaging SATCAT no. 2710 Spacecraft type Zenit-2 Launch date 13 March 1967 | COSPAR ID 1967-022A Mission duration 8 days Launch site Plesetsk 41/1 Rocket Vostok-2 | |
Manufacturer S. P. Korolev Rocket and Space Corporation Energia People also search for Kosmos 143, Kosmos 138, Kosmos 152 | ||
Kosmos 147 (Russian: Космос 147 meaning Cosmos 147) or Zenit-2 No.44 was a Soviet optical film-return reconnaissance satellite launched in 1967. A Zenit-2 spacecraft, Kosmos 147 was the forty-seventh of eighty-one such satellites to be launched.
Kosmos 147 was launched by a Vostok-2 rocket, serial number N15001-06, flying from Site 41/1 at the Plesetsk Cosmodrome. The launch took place at 12:10:23 UTC on 13 March 1967, and following its successful arrival in orbit the spacecraft received its Kosmos designation; along with the International Designator 1967-022A and the Satellite Catalog Number 2710.
Kosmos 147 was operated in a low Earth orbit; at an epoch of 15 March 1967 it had a perigee of 199 kilometres (124 mi), an apogee of 284 kilometres (176 mi) inclination of 64.5 degrees and an orbital period of 89.33 minutes. After eight days in orbit, Kosmos 147 was deorbited, with its return capsule descending under parachute and landing at 06:29 UTC on 21 March 1967. An unspecified problem with the satellite resulted in the mission being considered a partial failure.