Payload
COSMOS 2242
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COSMOS 2242 is a Russia (CIS / former USSR) payload satellite, launched on April 16, 1993 into LEO.
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Launch
- Launch date
- April 16, 1993 at 07:49 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia
- Launched by
- Tsiklon-3 →
- Operator
- Russian Space Forces
- Mission
- Tselina-R 4
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 588 km
- Periapsis
- 566 km
- Inclination
- 82.52°
- Orbital period
- 96.2 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 1,750 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1993-024A
- NORAD catalog №
- 22626
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Radar cross-section
- 8.317 m²
- Status
- active