Payload
COSMOS 2462
DecayedPayloadLEONORAD 36511
COSMOS 2462 is a Russia (CIS / former USSR) payload satellite, launched on April 16, 2010 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
Launch
- Launch date
- April 16, 2010 at 03:00 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia
- Launched by
- Soyuz U →
- Operator
- Russian Space Forces
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 270 km
- Periapsis
- 180 km
- Inclination
- 67.15°
- Orbital period
- 89 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 6,900 kg
- Dimensions
- Ø2.7 × 6.3 m
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2010-014A
- NORAD catalog №
- 36511
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Radar cross-section
- 12.5535 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- July 21, 2010
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- July 21, 2010
- Time in service
- 96 days
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed
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