Payload
BLITS
NonoperationalPayloadLEO
BLITS is a Russia (CIS / former USSR) payload satellite, launched on September 17, 2009 into LEO.
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Launch
- Launch date
- September 17, 2009 at 03:55 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
- Launched by
- Soyuz 2.1b Fregat →
- Operator
- Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS)
- Mission
- Meteor-M 1
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 820 km
- Periapsis
- 816 km
- Inclination
- 98.77°
- Orbital period
- 101.25 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 7 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2009-049G
- NORAD catalog №
- 35871
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Radar cross-section
- 0.0671 m²
- Status
- Nonoperational
End of mission
- Fate
- No longer operational — remains in orbit as inactive.
- Final status
- Nonoperational