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Kosmos 455

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Mission type
  
ABM radar target

Spacecraft type
  
DS-P1-Yu

Rocket
  
Kosmos-2I 63SM

Launch date
  
17 November 1971

Decay date
  
9 April 1972

COSPAR ID
  
1971-097A

Launch mass
  
325 kilograms (717 lb)

Launch site
  
Plesetsk 133/1

Manufacturer
  
Yuzhnoye Design Office

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Kosmos 455 (Russian: Космос 455 meaning Cosmos 455), known before launch as DS-P1-Yu No.54, was a Soviet satellite which was launched in 1971 as part of the Dnepropetrovsk Sputnik programme. It was a 325-kilogram (717 lb) spacecraft, which was built by the Yuzhnoye Design Bureau, and was used as a radar calibration target for anti-ballistic missile tests.

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Launch

Kosmos 455 was successfully launched into low Earth orbit on 17 November 1971, with the rocket lifting off at 11:09:48 UTC. The launch took place from Site 133/1 at the Plesetsk Cosmodrome, and used a Kosmos-2I 63SM carrier rocket.

Orbit

Upon reaching orbit, it was assigned its Kosmos designation, and received the International Designator 1971-097A.

Kosmos 455 was the forty-seventh of seventy nine DS-P1-Yu satellites to be launched, and the forty-second of seventy two to successfully reach orbit. It was operated in an orbit with a perigee of 266 kilometres (165 mi), an apogee of 468 kilometres (291 mi), 70.9 degrees of inclination, and an orbital period of 91.9 minutes. It remained in orbit until it decayed and reentered the atmosphere on 9 April 1972.

References

Kosmos 455 Wikipedia