Mission type ABM radar target Spacecraft type DS-P1-Yu Rocket Kosmos-2I 63SM Launch date 9 April 1968 | COSPAR ID 1968-028A Launch mass 250 kilograms (550 lb) Launch site Plesetsk 133/1 Manufacturer Yuzhnoye Design Office | |
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Kosmos 211 (Russian: Космос 211 meaning Cosmos 211), also known as DS-P1-Yu No.13 was a Soviet satellite which was used as a radar calibration target for tests of anti-ballistic missiles. It was built by the Yuzhnoye Design Bureau, and launched in 1968 as part of the Dnepropetrovsk Sputnik programme. It had a mass of 250 kilograms (550 lb).
A Kosmos-2I 63SM carrier rocket was used to launch Kosmos 211 from Site 133/1 at Plesetsk Cosmodrome. The launch occurred at 11:26:25 UTC on 9 April 1968, and resulted in Kosmos 211's successful deployment into a low Earth orbit. Upon reaching orbit, it was assigned its Kosmos designation, and received the International Designator 1968-028A.
Kosmos 211 was operated in an orbit with a perigee of 197 kilometres (122 mi), an apogee of 1,397 kilometres (868 mi), 81.8 degrees of inclination, and an orbital period of 100.81 minutes. It remained in orbit until it decayed and reentered the atmosphere on 10 November. It was the twelfth of seventy nine DS-P1-Yu satellites to be launched, and the eleventh of seventy two to successfully reach orbit.