Mission type Optical imaging SATCAT no. 791 Spacecraft type Zenit-2 Launch date 25 April 1964 Inclination 65° Launch mass 4,780 kg Launch site Baikonur Cosmodrome | COSPAR ID 1964-021A Mission duration 8 days Manufacturer OKB-1 Inclination 65° Period 1.5 hours Rocket Vostok-2 | |
Kosmos 29 (Russian: Космос 29 meaning Cosmos 29) or Zenit-2 No.19 was a Soviet optical film-return reconnaissance satellite which was launched in 1964. A Zenit-2 spacecraft, Kosmos 29 was the seventeenth of eighty-one such satellites to be launched and had a mass of 4,780.0 kilograms (10,538.1 lb).
A Vostok-2 rocket, serial number R15001-01, was used to launch Kosmos 29. The launch took place at 10:19 UTC on 25 April 1964, using Site 31/6 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome. Following its successful arrival in orbit the spacecraft received its Kosmos designation, along with the International Designator 1964-021A and the Satellite Catalog Number 791.
Kosmos 29 was operated in a low Earth orbit. On 28 April 1964 it had a perigee of 202 kilometres (126 mi), an apogee of 295 kilometres (183 mi), with inclination of 65 degrees and an orbital period of 89.47 minutes. After eight days in orbit, the satellite was deorbited on 3 May 1964 with its return capsule descending by parachute for recovery by Soviet forces.