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      • 5.180.24.3/info/kosmos" target="_blank">Kosmos 5 (Russian: Космос 5 meaning Cosmos 5), also known as 2MS #2 and occasionally in the West as Sputnik 15 was a scientific research and technology demonstration satellite launched by the Soviet Union in 1962. It was the fifth satellite to be designated under the 5.180.24.3/info/kosmos" target="_blank">Kosmos system, and the third spacecraft to be launched as part of the MS programme, after 5.180.24.3/info/kosmos" target="_blank">Kosmos 2 and 5.180.24.3/info/kosmos" target="_blank">Kosmos 3. Its primary missions were to develop systems for future satellites, and to record data about artificial radiation around the Earth.


      Spacecraft


      5.180.24.3/info/kosmos" target="_blank">Kosmos 5 was a 2MS satellite, the second of two to be launched, following the first which was launched as 5.180.24.3/info/kosmos" target="_blank">Kosmos 3 on 24 April 1962. The 2MS was the second of two types of MS satellite to be launched, following the first 1MS spacecraft which had been launched as 5.180.24.3/info/kosmos" target="_blank">Kosmos 2. 5.180.24.3/info/kosmos" target="_blank">Kosmos 5 was the penultimate MS satellite to be launched, and the last to successfully reach orbit. The last launch attempt, of a 1MS satellite, occurred on 25 October 1962, and failed to reach orbit. It had a mass of 280 kg.


      Mission


      It was launched aboard 5.180.24.3/info/kosmos" target="_blank">Kosmos-2I 63S1 s/n 3LK. It was the sixth flight of the 5.180.24.3/info/kosmos" target="_blank">Kosmos-2I, and the fourth to successfully reach orbit. The launch was conducted from Mayak-2 at Kapustin Yar, and occurred at 03:07:00 GMT on 28 May 1962. 5.180.24.3/info/kosmos" target="_blank">Kosmos 5 was placed into a low Earth orbit with a perigee of 190 kilometres (120 mi), an apogee of 1,587 kilometres (986 mi), an inclination of 49.1°, and an orbital period of 102.8 minutes. It decayed on 2 May 1963, after nearly a year in orbit.
      5.180.24.3/info/kosmos" target="_blank">Kosmos 5 was among several satellites inadvertently damaged or destroyed by the Starfish Prime high-altitude nuclear test on 9 July 1962 and subsequent radiation belt.


      See also



      1962 in spaceflight


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