Payload
COSMOS 2172
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COSMOS 2172 is a Russia (CIS / former USSR) payload satellite, launched on November 22, 1991 into GEO.
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Launch
- Launch date
- November 22, 1991 at 01:27 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
- Launched by
- Proton K/DM-2 →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- Potok 7
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- GEO
- Apoapsis
- 35,808 km
- Periapsis
- 35,778 km
- Inclination
- 13.25°
- Orbital period
- 1436.4 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 1,982.16 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1991-079A
- NORAD catalog №
- 21789
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Radar cross-section
- 5.0118 m²
- Status
- active