Kosmos 485
Introduction '''Kosmos 485''' ( meaning ''Cosmos 485''), known before launch as '''DS-P1-Yu No.58''', was a Soviet satellite which was launched in 1972 as part of the Dnepropetrovsk Sputnik programme. It was a  spacecraft, which was built by the Yuzhnoye Design Bureau, and was used as a radar calibration target for anti-ballistic missile tests.Kosmos 485 was successfully launched into low Earth orbit at 11:04:58 UTC on 11 April 1972.The launch took place from Site 133/1 at the Plesetsk Cosmodrome, and used a Kosmos-2I 63SM carrier rocket. Upon reaching orbit, the satellite was assigned its Kosmos designation, and received the International Designator 1972-028A. The North American Aerospace Defense Command assigned it the catalogue number 05938.Kosmos 485 was the fifty-second of seventy nine DS-P1-Yu satellites to be launched, and the forty-seventh of seventy two to successfully reach orbit. It was operated in an orbit with a perigee of , an apogee of , 70.9 degrees of inclination, and an orbital period of 91.6 minutes. It remained in orbit until it decayed and reentered the atmosphere on 30 August 1972.
See also *1972 in spaceflight
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