Payload
RADIO 2 (RS2)
NonoperationalPayloadLEO
RADIO 2 (RS2) is a Russia (CIS / former USSR) payload satellite, launched on October 26, 1978 into LEO.
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Launch
- Launch date
- October 26, 1978 at 07:00 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia
- Launched by
- Tsiklon-3 →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- Meteor-2-GVM
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 1,705 km
- Periapsis
- 1,685 km
- Inclination
- 82.55°
- Orbital period
- 120.33 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 39.64 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1978-100C
- NORAD catalog №
- 11086
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Radar cross-section
- 0.3378 m²
- Status
- Nonoperational
End of mission
- Fate
- No longer operational — remains in orbit as inactive.
- Final status
- Nonoperational