Payload
COSMOS 2340
activePayloadGEONORAD 24761
COSMOS 2340 is a Russia (CIS / former USSR) payload satellite, launched on April 9, 1997 into GEO.
Launch
- Launch date
- April 9, 1997 at 08:58 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia
- Launched by
- Molniya-M 2BL →
- Operator
- Progress Rocket Space Center
- Mission
- US-K 77
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- GEO
- Apoapsis
- 37,027 km
- Periapsis
- 3,284 km
- Inclination
- 65.36°
- Orbital period
- 716.89 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 1,238.85 kg
- Dimensions
- Ø2 × 2 m
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1997-015A
- NORAD catalog №
- 24761
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Radar cross-section
- 6.8485 m²
- Status
- active