Kosmos 498
Introduction '''Kosmos 498''' ( meaning ''Cosmos 498''), known before launch as '''DS-P1-Yu No.56''', 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 498 was successfully launched into low Earth orbit at 09:29:58 UTC on 5 July 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 1972-050A. The North American Aerospace Defense Command assigned it the catalogue number 06086.Kosmos 498 was the fifty-fifth of seventy nine DS-P1-Yu satellites to be launched, and the forty-ninth 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 91.8 minutes. It remained in orbit until it decayed and reentered the atmosphere on 25 November 1972.
See also *1972 in spaceflight
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