Payload
ASTRID 2
activePayloadLEONORAD 25568
ASTRID 2 is a Sweden payload satellite, launched on December 10, 1998 into LEO.
Launch
- Launch date
- December 10, 1998 at 11:57 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia
- Launched by
- Kosmos-3M (11K65M) →
- Operator
- Production Corporation Polyot
- Mission
- Nadezhda 8
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 1,008 km
- Periapsis
- 969 km
- Inclination
- 82.95°
- Orbital period
- 104.87 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Sweden
- Launch mass
- 29.73 kg
- Dimensions
- 1.1 × 0.3 × 0.3 m
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1998-072B
- NORAD catalog №
- 25568
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Sweden- Radar cross-section
- 0.4858 m²
- Status
- active