Mission type Magnetospheric Spacecraft type DS-U2-D Launch date 26 April 1968 Decay date 2 March 1969 | COSPAR ID 1968-038A Launch mass 300 kilograms (660 lb) Manufacturer Yuzhnoye Design Office | |
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Kosmos 219 (Russian: Космос 219 meaning Cosmos 219), also known as DS-U2-D No.2, was a Soviet satellite which was launched in 1968 as part of the Dnepropetrovsk Sputnik programme. It was a 300-kilogram (660 lb) spacecraft, which was built by the Yuzhnoye Design Bureau, and was used to investigate flows of charged particles in the Earth's magnetosphere.
A Kosmos-2I 63SM carrier rocket was used to launch Kosmos 219 into low Earth orbit. The launch took place from Site 86/4 at Kapustin Yar. The launch occurred at 04:42:56 UTC on 26 April 1968, and resulted in the successful insertion of the satellite into orbit. Upon reaching orbit, the satellite was assigned its Kosmos designation, and received the International Designator 1968-038A. The North American Aerospace Defense Command assigned it the catalogue number 03220.
Kosmos 219 was the second of two DS-U2-D satellites to be launched, after Kosmos 137 It was operated in an orbit with a perigee of 214 kilometres (133 mi), an apogee of 1,647 kilometres (1,023 mi), 48.4 degrees of inclination, and an orbital period of 103.6 minutes. It completed operations on 28 February 1969, before decaying from orbit and reentering the atmosphere on 2 March.