Payload
COSMOS 2244
DecayedPayloadLEO
COSMOS 2244 is a Russia (CIS / former USSR) payload satellite, launched on April 28, 1993 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- April 28, 1993 at 03:39 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
- Launched by
- Tsiklon-2 →
- Operator
- Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS)
- Mission
- US-PM 2
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 206 km
- Periapsis
- 162 km
- Inclination
- 64.99°
- Orbital period
- 88.17 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 2,973.24 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1993-029A
- NORAD catalog №
- 22643
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Radar cross-section
- 22.3363 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- March 18, 1995
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- March 18, 1995
- Time in service
- 1.9 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed