Payload
MERIDIAN 7
OperationalPayloadGEO
MERIDIAN 7 is a Military Space Forces (VKS) payload satellite, launched on October 30, 2014 into GEO.
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Launch
- Launch date
- October 30, 2014 at 01:42 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
- GEO
- Apoapsis
- 37,841 km
- Periapsis
- 2,518 km
- Inclination
- 63.44°
- Orbital period
- 717.87 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)
- 2014-069A
- NORAD catalog №
- 40296
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Radar cross-section
- 21.2284 m²
- Status
- Operational