Payload
FOTON-M 2
DecayedPayloadLEO
FOTON-M 2 is a Russia (CIS / former USSR) payload satellite, launched on May 31, 2005 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- May 31, 2005 at 12:00 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
- Launched by
- Soyuz-U-PVB →
- Operator
- Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS)
- Mission
- Foton-M No. 2
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 284 km
- Periapsis
- 255 km
- Inclination
- 62.96°
- Orbital period
- 89.9 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 5,615 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2005-020A
- NORAD catalog №
- 28686
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Radar cross-section
- 12.4754 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- June 16, 2005
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- June 16, 2005
- Time in service
- 16 days
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed