Gonets · Payload
GONETS-D1 4
NonoperationalPayloadLEO
GONETS-D1 4 is a Russia (CIS / former USSR) payload satellite, part of the Gonets constellation, launched on February 14, 1997 into LEO.
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Launch
- Launch date
- February 14, 1997 at 03:47 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia
- Launched by
- Tsiklon-3 →
- Operator
- Russian Space Forces
- Mission
- Strela-3 116 to 118 & Gonets 4 to 6
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 1,413 km
- Periapsis
- 1,401 km
- Inclination
- 82.6°
- Orbital period
- 113.93 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Manufacturer
- ISS Reshetnev
- Users
- Commercial
- Launch mass
- 225 kg
- Design lifetime
- 5 years
- Detailed purpose
- Store-and-forward messaging
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1997-006D
- NORAD catalog №
- 24728
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Constellation
- Gonets
- Radar cross-section
- 0.864 m²
- Status
- Nonoperational
End of mission
- Fate
- No longer operational — remains in orbit as inactive.
- Final status
- Nonoperational