02722
Mission duration
133 days
Spacecraft properties
Spacecraft type
Manufacturer
Launch mass
325 kg[1]
Start of mission
Launch date
25 March 1967, 06:57:00 GMT
Rocket
Kosmos-2I 63SM
Launch site
Contractor
End of mission
Decay date
5 August 1967
Orbital parameters
Reference system
Regime
272 km
488 km
71.0°
92.2 minutes
25 March 1967
Kosmos 152 (Russian: Космос 152 meaning Cosmos 152), also known as DS-P1-Yu No.7 was a Soviet satellite which was used as a radar calibration target for tests of anti-ballistic missiles.[2] It was built by the Yuzhnoye Design Bureau, and launched in 1967 as part of the Dnepropetrovsk Sputnik programme,[3] and had a mass of 325 kilograms (717 lb).[1]
Kosmos 152 was launched using a Kosmos-2I 63SM carrier rocket, which flew from Site 133/3atPlesetsk Cosmodrome.[4] The launch occurred at 06:57 GMT on 25 March 1967.[5]
Kosmos 152 separated from its carrier rocket into a low Earth orbit with a perigee of 272 kilometres (169 mi), an apogee of 488 kilometres (303 mi), an inclination of 71.0°, and an orbital period of 92.2 minutes.[6]Itdecayed from orbit on 5 August 1967.[7] Kosmos 152 was the seventh of seventy nine DS-P1-Yu satellites to be launched,[3] and the sixth of seventy two to successfully reach orbit.
DS-1
DS-2
DS-A1
DS-K
DS-MG
DS-MT
DS-MO
DS-P1
P1-I
P1-M
P1-Yu
DS-U1
DS-U2
DS-U3
Payloads are separated by bullets ( · ), launches by pipes ( | ). Crewed flights are indicated in underline. Uncatalogued launch failures are listed in italics. Payloads deployed from other spacecraft are denoted in (brackets).
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