Payload
COSMOS 2401
OperationalPayloadLEO
COSMOS 2401 is a Ministry of Defense payload satellite, launched on August 19, 2003 into LEO.
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Launch
- Launch date
- August 19, 2003 at 10:50 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia
- Launched by
- Kosmos-3M (11K65M) →
- Operator
- Production Corporation Polyot
- Mission
- Strela-3 133 & 134
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 1,501 km
- Periapsis
- 1,465 km
- Inclination
- 82.47°
- Orbital period
- 115.62 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Ministry of Defense
- Manufacturer
- NPO/PM - Scientific Research Institute for Precision Instruments (NII-TP)
- Users
- Military
- Launch mass
- 225 kg
- Design lifetime
- 3 years
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2003-037B
- NORAD catalog №
- 27869
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Radar cross-section
- 0.9598 m²
- Status
- Operational