Payload
SOYUZ-TMA 8
DecayedPayloadLEO
SOYUZ-TMA 8 is a Russia (CIS / former USSR) payload satellite, launched on March 30, 2006 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- March 30, 2006 at 02:30 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
- Launched by
- Soyuz FG →
- Operator
- Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS)
- Mission
- Soyuz TMA-8
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 348 km
- Periapsis
- 335 km
- Inclination
- 51.65°
- Orbital period
- 91.36 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 7,236 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2006-009A
- NORAD catalog №
- 28996
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Radar cross-section
- 6.1181 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- September 29, 2006
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- September 29, 2006
- Time in service
- 183 days
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed
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