Payload
COSMOS 2446
DecayedPayloadLEONORAD 33447
COSMOS 2446 is a Russia (CIS / former USSR) payload satellite, launched on December 2, 2008 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
Launch
- Launch date
- December 2, 2008 at 04:59 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia
- Launched by
- Molniya-M 2BL →
- Operator
- Progress Rocket Space Center
- Mission
- US-K 85
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 1,185 km
- Periapsis
- 62 km
- Inclination
- 64.94°
- Orbital period
- 97.17 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 1,900 kg
- Dimensions
- Ø2 × 4 m
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2008-062A
- NORAD catalog №
- 33447
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Radar cross-section
- 3.5604 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- May 6, 2017
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- May 6, 2017
- Time in service
- 8.4 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed