Payload
COSMOS 2046
DecayedPayloadLEO
A catalogued spacecraft payload.
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Launch
- Launch date
- September 27, 1989 at 04:20 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
- Launched by
- Tsiklon-2 →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- US-P 31
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 185 km
- Periapsis
- 152 km
- Inclination
- 64.99°
- Orbital period
- 87.86 min
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1989-079A
- NORAD catalog №
- 20259
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Radar cross-section
- 29.17 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- April 16, 1991
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- April 16, 1991
- Time in service
- 1.5 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed