Payload
COSMOS 2231
DecayedPayloadLEONORAD 22317
COSMOS 2231 is a Russia (CIS / former USSR) payload satellite, launched on January 19, 1993 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
Launch
- Launch date
- January 19, 1993 at 02:49 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia
- Launched by
- Soyuz U →
- Operator
- Russian Space Forces
- Mission
- Yantar-4K2 68
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 303 km
- Periapsis
- 165 km
- Inclination
- 67.1°
- Orbital period
- 89.19 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 6,442.02 kg
- Dimensions
- Ø2.7 × 6.3 m
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1993-004A
- NORAD catalog №
- 22317
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Radar cross-section
- 12.05 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- March 25, 1993
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- March 25, 1993
- Time in service
- 65 days
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed
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