Payload
COSMOS 2261
DecayedPayloadLEO
COSMOS 2261 is a Russia (CIS / former USSR) payload satellite, launched on August 10, 1993 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- August 10, 1993 at 02:53 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia
- Launched by
- Molniya-M 2BL →
- Operator
- Progress Rocket Space Center
- Mission
- US-K 74
- Launch record
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Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 387 km
- Periapsis
- 56 km
- Inclination
- 61.06°
- Orbital period
- 88.92 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 1,883.05 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1993-051A
- NORAD catalog №
- 22741
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Radar cross-section
- 10.0237 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- December 31, 2012
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- December 31, 2012
- Time in service
- 19.4 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed