Payload
LAGEOS 2
OperationalPayloadMEO
LAGEOS 2 is a Italy payload satellite, launched on October 22, 1992 into MEO.
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Launch
- Launch date
- October 22, 1992 at 05:09 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral SFS, USA
- Launched by
- Space Shuttle →
- Operator
- Lockheed Space Operations Company
- Mission
- STS-52
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- MEO
- Apoapsis
- 5,951 km
- Periapsis
- 5,616 km
- Inclination
- 52.66°
- Orbital period
- 222.46 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Italy
- Launch mass
- 405 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1992-070B
- NORAD catalog №
- 22195
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Italy- Radar cross-section
- 0.3981 m²
- Status
- Operational
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