Gonets · Payload
GONETS-M 3
OperationalPayloadLEO
GONETS-M 3 is a Russia (CIS / former USSR) payload satellite, part of the Gonets constellation, launched on July 28, 2012 into LEO.
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Launch
- Launch date
- July 28, 2012 at 01:35 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia
- Launched by
- Rokot/Briz-KM →
- Operator
- Russian Aerospace Defence Forces
- Mission
- Gonets M-13, Gonets M-15, Strela-3M (Kosmos-2481) & Yubileyniy 2 (MiR)
- Launch record
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Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 1,500 km
- Periapsis
- 1,472 km
- Inclination
- 82.48°
- Orbital period
- 115.67 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Manufacturer
- ISS Reshetnev
- Users
- Commercial
- Launch mass
- 280 kg
- Design lifetime
- 5 years
- Detailed purpose
- Store-and-forward messaging
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2012-041B
- NORAD catalog №
- 38734
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Constellation
- Gonets
- Radar cross-section
- 1.66 m²
- Status
- Operational