Payload
COSMOS 2159
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COSMOS 2159 is a Russia (CIS / former USSR) payload satellite, launched on September 28, 1991 into LEO.
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Launch
- Launch date
- September 28, 1991 at 07:05 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia
- Launched by
- Tsiklon-3 →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- Strela-3 67 to 72
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 1,408 km
- Periapsis
- 1,388 km
- Inclination
- 82.58°
- Orbital period
- 113.74 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 222.99 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1991-068C
- NORAD catalog №
- 21730
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Radar cross-section
- 1.0531 m²
- Status
- active