Payload
FOTON 3
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A catalogued spacecraft payload.
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Launch
- Launch date
- April 11, 1990 at 05:00 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia
- Launched by
- Soyuz U →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- Foton 6
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 345 km
- Periapsis
- 211 km
- Inclination
- 62.8°
- Orbital period
- 90.07 min
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1990-032A
- NORAD catalog №
- 20566
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Radar cross-section
- 12.99 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- April 27, 1990
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- April 27, 1990
- Time in service
- 16 days
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed
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