Spacecraft type DS-P1-I Rocket Kosmos-2I 63SM Launch date 30 June 1972 Decay date 7 November 1973 | COSPAR ID 1972-048A Launch mass 300 kilograms (660 lb) Manufacturer Yuzhnoye Design Office | |
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Kosmos 497 (Russian: Космос 497 meaning Cosmos 497), also known as DS-P1-I No.12 was a satellite which was used as a radar target for anti-ballistic missile tests. It was launched by the Soviet Union in 1972 as part of the Dnepropetrovsk Sputnik programme.
It was launched aboard a Kosmos-2I 63SM rocket, from Site 133/1 at Plesetsk. The launch occurred at 09:19:49 UTC on 30 June 1972.
Kosmos 497 was placed into a low Earth orbit with a perigee of 271 kilometres (168 mi), an apogee of 787 kilometres (489 mi), 70.9 degrees of inclination, and an orbital period of 95.2 minutes. It decayed from orbit on 7 November 1973.
Kosmos 497 was the twelfth of nineteen DS-P1-I satellites to be launched. Of these, all reached orbit successfully except the seventh.