Payload
COSMOS 2241
DecayedPayloadLEONORAD 22594
COSMOS 2241 is a Russia (CIS / former USSR) payload satellite, launched on April 6, 1993 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
Launch
- Launch date
- April 6, 1993 at 07:07 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia
- Launched by
- Molniya-M 2BL →
- Operator
- Progress Rocket Space Center
- Mission
- US-K 73
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 212 km
- Periapsis
- 107 km
- Inclination
- 61.09°
- Orbital period
- 87.68 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 1,883.05 kg
- Dimensions
- Ø2 × 2 m
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1993-022A
- NORAD catalog №
- 22594
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Radar cross-section
- 9.7463 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- March 8, 2022
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- March 8, 2022
- Time in service
- 28.9 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed