Payload
FOTON 12
DecayedPayloadLEO
FOTON 12 is a Russia (CIS / former USSR) payload satellite, launched on September 9, 1999 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- September 9, 1999 at 06:00 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia
- Launched by
- Soyuz-U-PVB →
- Operator
- Strategic Rocket Forces
- Mission
- Foton 12
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 365 km
- Periapsis
- 215 km
- Inclination
- 62.8°
- Orbital period
- 90.32 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 6,300 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1999-048A
- NORAD catalog №
- 25902
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Radar cross-section
- 7.493 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- September 24, 1999
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- September 24, 1999
- Time in service
- 15 days
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed