Payload
COSMOS 2238
DecayedPayloadLEO
COSMOS 2238 is a Russia (CIS / former USSR) payload satellite, launched on March 30, 1993 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- March 30, 1993 at 12:00 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
- Launched by
- Tsiklon-2 →
- Operator
- Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS)
- Mission
- US-PM 1
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 143 km
- Periapsis
- 127 km
- Inclination
- 64.97°
- Orbital period
- 87.18 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 3,300 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1993-018A
- NORAD catalog №
- 22585
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Radar cross-section
- 22.0662 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- December 8, 1994
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- December 8, 1994
- Time in service
- 1.7 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed