Weather
ELEKTRON 2
DecayedWeatherLEO
Observes the atmosphere and oceans for meteorology and climate monitoring.
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Launch
- Launch date
- January 30, 1964 at 09:45 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
- Launched by
- Vostok-K →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- Elektron-1 & 2
- Launch record
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Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 1,490 km
- Periapsis
- 74 km
- Inclination
- 56.7°
- Orbital period
- 100.49 min
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1964-006B
- NORAD catalog №
- 748
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Radar cross-section
- 3.9388 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- April 20, 1997
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- April 20, 1997
- Time in service
- 33.2 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed