Payload
COSMOS 2163
DecayedPayloadLEO
COSMOS 2163 is a Russia (CIS / former USSR) payload satellite, launched on October 9, 1991 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- October 9, 1991 at 01:15 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
- Launched by
- Soyuz-U2 →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- Orlets-1 3
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 259 km
- Periapsis
- 187 km
- Inclination
- 64.77°
- Orbital period
- 88.95 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 7,600 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1991-071A
- NORAD catalog №
- 21741
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Radar cross-section
- 29.98 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- December 7, 1991
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- December 7, 1991
- Time in service
- 59 days
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed