Payload
COSMOS 2579
OperationalPayloadLEO
A catalogued spacecraft payload.
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Launch
- Launch date
- October 31, 2024 at 07:51 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia
- Launched by
- Soyuz 2.1a →
- Operator
- Russian Space Forces
- Mission
- Kosmos 2579 (Bars-M No. 6)
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 493 km
- Periapsis
- 489 km
- Inclination
- 97.56°
- Orbital period
- 94.43 min
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2024-197A
- NORAD catalog №
- 61730
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Status
- Operational
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