Payload
EXPRESS-A2
NonoperationalPayloadGEONORAD 26098
EXPRESS-A2 is a Russia (CIS / former USSR) payload satellite, launched on March 12, 2000 into GEO.
Launch
- Launch date
- March 12, 2000 at 04:07 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
- Launched by
- Proton-K/DM-2M →
- Operator
- Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center
- Mission
- Ekspress 6A
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- GEO
- Apoapsis
- 36,389 km
- Periapsis
- 36,332 km
- Inclination
- 13.11°
- Orbital period
- 1465.52 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 2,300 kg
- Dimensions
- Ø2 × 2 m
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2000-013A
- NORAD catalog №
- 26098
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Radar cross-section
- 20 m²
- Status
- Nonoperational
End of mission
- Fate
- No longer operational — remains in orbit as inactive.
- Final status
- Nonoperational