Payload
COSMOS 2059
DecayedPayloadLEO
COSMOS 2059 is a Russia (CIS / former USSR) payload satellite, launched on February 6, 1990 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- February 6, 1990 at 04:30 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia
- Launched by
- Kosmos-3M (11K65M) →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- Duga-K 2
- Launch record
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Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 174 km
- Periapsis
- 120 km
- Inclination
- 65.71°
- Orbital period
- 87.43 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 495.54 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1990-012A
- NORAD catalog №
- 20476
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Radar cross-section
- 6.02 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- November 12, 1990
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- November 12, 1990
- Time in service
- 279 days
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed