Payload
EKRAN 4
NonoperationalPayloadGEO
EKRAN 4 is a Russia (CIS / former USSR) payload satellite, launched on October 3, 1979 into GEO.
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Launch
- Launch date
- October 3, 1979 at 05:12 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
- Launched by
- Proton-K/DM →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- Ekran
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- GEO
- Apoapsis
- 35,833 km
- Periapsis
- 35,743 km
- Inclination
- 5.61°
- Orbital period
- 1436.16 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 1,952.43 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1979-087A
- NORAD catalog №
- 11561
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Radar cross-section
- 0.1995 m²
- Status
- Nonoperational
End of mission
- Fate
- No longer operational — remains in orbit as inactive.
- Final status
- Nonoperational