Payload
EXPRESS 2
NonoperationalPayloadGEONORAD 24435
EXPRESS 2 is a Russia (CIS / former USSR) payload satellite, launched on September 26, 1996 into GEO.
Launch
- Launch date
- September 26, 1996 at 05:50 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
- Launched by
- Proton-K/DM-2M →
- Operator
- Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center
- Mission
- Ekspress 2
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- GEO
- Apoapsis
- 35,819 km
- Periapsis
- 35,732 km
- Inclination
- 14.57°
- Orbital period
- 1435.53 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 2,477.7 kg
- Dimensions
- Ø2 × 2 m
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1996-058A
- NORAD catalog №
- 24435
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Radar cross-section
- 10 m²
- Status
- Nonoperational
End of mission
- Fate
- No longer operational — remains in orbit as inactive.
- Final status
- Nonoperational