Payload
COSMOS 2421
DecayedPayloadLEO
COSMOS 2421 is a Russia (CIS / former USSR) payload satellite, launched on June 25, 2006 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- June 25, 2006 at 04:00 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
- Launched by
- Tsiklon-2 →
- Operator
- Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS)
- Mission
- US-PM 13
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 157 km
- Periapsis
- 149 km
- Inclination
- 65.02°
- Orbital period
- 87.55 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2006-026A
- NORAD catalog №
- 29247
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Radar cross-section
- 9.2564 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- August 19, 2010
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- August 19, 2010
- Time in service
- 4.2 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed