Payload
AIST-2 (RS43)
NonoperationalPayloadLEONORAD 39133
AIST-2 (RS43) is a Russia (CIS / former USSR) payload satellite, launched on April 19, 2013 into LEO.
Launch
- Launch date
- April 19, 2013 at 10:00 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
- Launched by
- Soyuz 2.1a →
- Operator
- Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS)
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 500 km
- Periapsis
- 474 km
- Inclination
- 64.87°
- Orbital period
- 94.35 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 39 kg
- Dimensions
- 0.4 × 0.2 × 0.4 m
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2013-015D
- NORAD catalog №
- 39133
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Radar cross-section
- 0.2783 m²
- Status
- Nonoperational
End of mission
- Fate
- No longer operational — remains in orbit as inactive.
- Final status
- Nonoperational
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