Payload
COSMOS 2259
DecayedPayloadLEONORAD 22716
COSMOS 2259 is a Russia (CIS / former USSR) payload satellite, launched on July 14, 1993 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
Launch
- Launch date
- July 14, 1993 at 04:40 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia
- Launched by
- Soyuz-U-PVB →
- Operator
- Russian Space Forces
- Mission
- Yantar-4K2 70
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 322 km
- Periapsis
- 173 km
- Inclination
- 67.13°
- Orbital period
- 89.45 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 6,600 kg
- Dimensions
- Ø2.7 × 6.3 m
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1993-045A
- NORAD catalog №
- 22716
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- July 25, 1993
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- July 25, 1993
- Time in service
- 11 days
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed