Payload
COSMOS 2222
DecayedPayloadLEO
COSMOS 2222 is a Russia (CIS / former USSR) payload satellite, launched on November 25, 1992 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- November 25, 1992 at 12:18 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia
- Launched by
- Molniya 8K78M-PVB →
- Operator
- Progress Rocket Space Center
- Mission
- US-K 71
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 654 km
- Periapsis
- 63 km
- Inclination
- 59.61°
- Orbital period
- 91.71 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 1,883.05 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1992-081A
- NORAD catalog №
- 22238
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Radar cross-section
- 9.1538 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- May 3, 2023
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- May 3, 2023
- Time in service
- 30.4 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed