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COSMOS 2081 [GLONASS]
NonoperationalNavigationMEONORAD 20621
COSMOS 2081 [GLONASS] is a Russia (CIS / former USSR) navigation satellite, launched on May 19, 1990 into MEO.
Launch
- Launch date
- May 19, 1990 at 08:32 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
- Launched by
- Proton K/DM-2 →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- Uragan 36 to 38
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- MEO
- Apoapsis
- 19,247 km
- Periapsis
- 19,012 km
- Inclination
- 64.74°
- Orbital period
- 675.72 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 1,288.4 kg
- Dimensions
- Ø1.01 × 3.47 m
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1990-045C
- NORAD catalog №
- 20621
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Radar cross-section
- 1.703 m²
- Status
- Nonoperational
End of mission
- Fate
- No longer operational — remains in orbit as inactive.
- Final status
- Nonoperational