Payload
SPEKTR
DecayedPayloadLEO
Spektr was the fifth module of the Mir Space Station. The module was designed for remote observation of Earth's environment and contained atmospheric and surface research equipment. Spektr distinctively had four solar arrays which generated about half of the station's electrical power. Spektr was infamously damaged when a Progress hit the module, forcing its closure.
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Launch
- Launch date
- May 20, 1995 at 03:33 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
- Launched by
- Proton-K →
- Operator
- Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center
- Mission
- Spektr
- Launch record
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Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 215 km
- Periapsis
- 151 km
- Inclination
- 51.64°
- Orbital period
- 88.15 min
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1995-024A
- NORAD catalog №
- 23579
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Radar cross-section
- 33.5552 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- March 23, 2001
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- March 23, 2001
- Time in service
- 5.8 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed