Payload
COSMOS 2050
activePayloadGEONORAD 20330
COSMOS 2050 is a Russia (CIS / former USSR) payload satellite, launched on November 23, 1989 into GEO.
Launch
- Launch date
- November 23, 1989 at 08:35 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia
- Launched by
- Molniya-M 2BL →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- US-K 61
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- GEO
- Apoapsis
- 35,940 km
- Periapsis
- 4,453 km
- Inclination
- 65.51°
- Orbital period
- 718.56 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 1,250 kg
- Dimensions
- Ø2 × 4 m
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1989-091A
- NORAD catalog №
- 20330
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Radar cross-section
- 11 m²
- Status
- active