Payload
COSMOS 2472
DecayedPayloadLEO
A catalogued spacecraft payload.
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Launch
- Launch date
- June 27, 2011 at 12:00 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia
- Launched by
- SpaceShipTwo →
- Operator
- Virgin Galactic
- Mission
- VSS Enterprise GF15
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 242 km
- Periapsis
- 201 km
- Inclination
- 81.36°
- Orbital period
- 88.93 min
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2011-028A
- NORAD catalog №
- 37726
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Radar cross-section
- 12.001 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- October 24, 2011
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- October 24, 2011
- Time in service
- 119 days
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed
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