Payload
AUREOLE 2
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AUREOLE 2 is a France payload satellite, launched on December 26, 1973 into LEO.
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Launch
- Launch date
- December 26, 1973 at 04:30 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia
- Launched by
- Kosmos-3M (11K65M) →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- Aureole 2
- Launch record
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Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 415 km
- Periapsis
- 294 km
- Inclination
- 73.89°
- Orbital period
- 91.64 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- France
- Launch mass
- 396.43 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1973-107A
- NORAD catalog №
- 7003
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
France- Radar cross-section
- 2.028 m²
- Status
- active