Payload
PION 2
DecayedPayloadLEO
PION 2 is a Russia (CIS / former USSR) payload satellite, launched on May 25, 1989 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- May 25, 1989 at 08:50 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia
- Launched by
- Soyuz-U-PVB →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- Resurs-F 1
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 147 km
- Periapsis
- 140 km
- Inclination
- 82.28°
- Orbital period
- 87.35 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 78 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1989-038D
- NORAD catalog №
- 20060
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Radar cross-section
- 0.05 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- July 24, 1989
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- July 24, 1989
- Time in service
- 60 days
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed