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Launch
- Launch date
- November 20, 1998 at 06:40 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
- Launched by
- Proton-K →
- Operator
- Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center
- Mission
- Zarya
- Launch record
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Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 189 km
- Periapsis
- 182 km
- Inclination
- 51.62°
- Orbital period
- 88.2 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- To Be Determined
- Launch mass
- 2 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1998-067VT
- NORAD catalog №
- 57315
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
- To Be Determined
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- January 5, 2024
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- January 5, 2024
- Time in service
- 25.1 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed