Payload
MERIDIAN 6
NonoperationalPayloadHEO
MERIDIAN 6 is a Military Space Forces (VKS) payload satellite, launched on November 14, 2012 into HEO.
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Launch
- Launch date
- November 14, 2012 at 11:42 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia
- Launched by
- Soyuz 2.1a Fregat-M →
- Operator
- Russian Aerospace Defence Forces
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- HEO
- Apoapsis
- 39,673 km
- Periapsis
- 668 km
- Inclination
- 64.03°
- Orbital period
- 717.51 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Military Space Forces (VKS)
- Manufacturer
- ISS Reshetnev
- Users
- Military
- Launch mass
- 2,000 kg
- Design lifetime
- 7 years
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2012-063A
- NORAD catalog №
- 38995
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Radar cross-section
- 29.3429 m²
- Status
- Nonoperational
End of mission
- Fate
- No longer operational — remains in orbit as inactive.
- Final status
- Nonoperational