Payload
MERIDIAN 4
NonoperationalPayloadHEO
MERIDIAN 4 is a Military Space Forces (VKS) payload satellite, launched on May 4, 2011 into HEO.
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Launch
- Launch date
- May 4, 2011 at 05:41 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia
- Launched by
- Soyuz 2.1a Fregat-M →
- Operator
- Russian Space Forces
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- HEO
- Apoapsis
- 39,662 km
- Periapsis
- 130 km
- Inclination
- 62.08°
- Orbital period
- 706.41 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Military Space Forces (VKS)
- Manufacturer
- PO Polyot
- Users
- Military
- Launch mass
- 2,000 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2011-018A
- NORAD catalog №
- 37398
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Radar cross-section
- 26.1127 m²
- Status
- Nonoperational
- Decay / reentry
- July 20, 2026
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- July 20, 2026
- Time in service
- 15.2 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Nonoperational