Payload
COSMOS 2542
DecayedPayloadLEO
COSMOS 2542 is a Ministry of Defense payload satellite, launched on November 25, 2019 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- November 25, 2019 at 05:52 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia
- Launched by
- Soyuz 2.1v Volga →
- Operator
- Russian Space Forces
- Mission
- Kosmos 2542
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 159 km
- Periapsis
- 148 km
- Inclination
- 97.63°
- Orbital period
- 87.55 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Ministry of Defense
- Manufacturer
- Unknown
- Users
- Military
- Launch mass
- 547 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2019-079A
- NORAD catalog №
- 44797
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- October 24, 2023
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- October 24, 2023
- Time in service
- 3.9 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed