Payload
MERIDIAN 2
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MERIDIAN 2 is a Russia (CIS / former USSR) payload satellite, launched on May 21, 2009 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- May 21, 2009 at 09:53 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia
- Launched by
- Soyuz 2.1a Fregat →
- Operator
- Russian Space Forces
- Mission
- Meridian No. 12L
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 317 km
- Periapsis
- 69 km
- Inclination
- 62.92°
- Orbital period
- 88.35 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 2,000 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2009-029A
- NORAD catalog №
- 35008
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Radar cross-section
- 18.5251 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- April 23, 2021
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- April 23, 2021
- Time in service
- 11.9 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed