Payload
COSMOS 2260
DecayedPayloadLEO
COSMOS 2260 is a Russia (CIS / former USSR) payload satellite, launched on July 22, 1993 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- July 22, 1993 at 08:45 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia
- Launched by
- Soyuz-U-PVB →
- Operator
- Russian Space Forces
- Mission
- Zenit-8 101
- Launch record
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Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 292 km
- Periapsis
- 241 km
- Inclination
- 82.29°
- Orbital period
- 89.84 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 6,300 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1993-047A
- NORAD catalog №
- 22721
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Radar cross-section
- 5.81 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- August 5, 1993
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- August 5, 1993
- Time in service
- 14 days
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed