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Failure
Earth Science
Mission Elapsed Time
T-00:00:00
Mission Details
Cosmos 1 was a project by Cosmos Studios and The Planetary Society to test a solar sail in space. As part of the project, an unmanned solar-sail spacecraft named Cosmos 1 was launched into space at 15:46:09 EDT (19:46:09 UTC) on June 21, 2005 from the submarine Borisoglebsk in the Barents Sea. However, a rocket failure prevented the spacecraft from reaching its intended orbit.
- Type
- Earth Science
- Orbit
- Low Earth Orbit (LEO)
Weather at Launch
- Temp
- 1.1°C
- Wind
- 18 km/h @ 113°
- Sky
- Partly cloudy
- Source
- open-meteo-archive