Payload
COSMOS 2055
DecayedPayloadLEONORAD 20426
COSMOS 2055 is a Russia (CIS / former USSR) payload satellite, launched on January 17, 1990 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
Launch
- Launch date
- January 17, 1990 at 02:45 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia
- Launched by
- Soyuz U →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- Zenit-8 89
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 248 km
- Periapsis
- 200 km
- Inclination
- 62.82°
- Orbital period
- 88.98 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 6,243.81 kg
- Dimensions
- Ø2.4 × 6.49 m
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1990-003A
- NORAD catalog №
- 20426
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Radar cross-section
- 7.5 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- January 29, 1990
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- January 29, 1990
- Time in service
- 12 days
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed
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