Payload
RADARSAT-2
OperationalPayloadLEO
RADARSAT-2 is a MDA Corporation payload satellite, launched on December 14, 2007 into LEO.
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Launch
- Launch date
- December 14, 2007 at 01:17 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
- Launched by
- Soyuz-FG Fregat →
- Operator
- Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS)
- Mission
- Radarsat-2
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 793 km
- Periapsis
- 791 km
- Inclination
- 98.58°
- Orbital period
- 100.7 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- MDA Corporation
- Manufacturer
- MacDonald, Dettwiler/Thales Alenia Spazio
- Users
- Commercial
- Launch mass
- 2,300 kg
- Design lifetime
- 7 years
- Detailed purpose
- Radar Imaging
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2007-061A
- NORAD catalog №
- 32382
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Canada- Radar cross-section
- 8.381 m²
- Status
- Operational