Payload
ASTRON
NonoperationalPayloadHEO
ASTRON is a Russia (CIS / former USSR) payload satellite, launched on March 23, 1983 into HEO.
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Launch
- Launch date
- March 23, 1983 at 12:45 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
- Launched by
- Proton-K/D-1 →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- Astron
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- HEO
- Apoapsis
- 177,405 km
- Periapsis
- 26,916 km
- Inclination
- 77.89°
- Orbital period
- 5931.13 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 3,171.46 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1983-020A
- NORAD catalog №
- 13901
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Radar cross-section
- 7.9432 m²
- Status
- Nonoperational
End of mission
- Fate
- No longer operational — remains in orbit as inactive.
- Final status
- Nonoperational