Payload
COSMOS 2359
DecayedPayloadLEONORAD 25376
COSMOS 2359 is a Russia (CIS / former USSR) payload satellite, launched on June 25, 1998 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
Launch
- Launch date
- June 25, 1998 at 02:00 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
- Launched by
- Soyuz-U-PVB →
- Operator
- Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS)
- Mission
- Yantar-4KS1M 8
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 234 km
- Periapsis
- 212 km
- Inclination
- 64.85°
- Orbital period
- 88.96 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 7,000 kg
- Dimensions
- Ø2.7 × 8 m
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1998-039A
- NORAD catalog №
- 25376
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Radar cross-section
- 19.4081 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- July 12, 1999
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- July 12, 1999
- Time in service
- 1.0 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed