Payload
BION 11
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A catalogued spacecraft payload.
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Launch
- Launch date
- December 24, 1996 at 01:50 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia
- Launched by
- Soyuz U →
- Operator
- Russian Space Forces
- Mission
- Bion 11
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 372 km
- Periapsis
- 217 km
- Inclination
- 62.8°
- Orbital period
- 90.41 min
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1996-073A
- NORAD catalog №
- 24701
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Radar cross-section
- 23.0577 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- January 7, 1997
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- January 7, 1997
- Time in service
- 14 days
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed
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