Payload
COSMOS 2044
DecayedPayloadLEO
A catalogued spacecraft payload.
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Launch
- Launch date
- September 15, 1989 at 06:30 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia
- Launched by
- Soyuz U →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- Bion 9
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 220 km
- Periapsis
- 183 km
- Inclination
- 82.32°
- Orbital period
- 88.53 min
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1989-075A
- NORAD catalog №
- 20242
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Radar cross-section
- 5.2 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- September 29, 1989
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- September 29, 1989
- Time in service
- 14 days
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed
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