Payload
MERIDIAN 1
DecayedPayloadLEO
MERIDIAN 1 is a Russia (CIS / former USSR) payload satellite, launched on December 24, 2006 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- December 24, 2006 at 08:34 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia
- Launched by
- Soyuz 2.1a Fregat →
- Operator
- Russian Space Forces
- Mission
- Meridian No. 11L
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 386 km
- Periapsis
- 64 km
- Inclination
- 61.17°
- Orbital period
- 88.99 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 2,000 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2006-061A
- NORAD catalog №
- 29668
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Radar cross-section
- 15.4504 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- July 6, 2021
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- July 6, 2021
- Time in service
- 14.5 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed