Payload
FOTON 4
DecayedPayloadLEO
FOTON 4 is a Russia (CIS / former USSR) payload satellite, launched on October 4, 1991 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- October 4, 1991 at 06:10 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia
- Launched by
- Soyuz-U-PVB →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- Foton 7
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 365 km
- Periapsis
- 209 km
- Inclination
- 62.81°
- Orbital period
- 90.25 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 6,640.24 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1991-070A
- NORAD catalog №
- 21737
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Radar cross-section
- 10.76 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- October 20, 1991
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- October 20, 1991
- Time in service
- 16 days
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed