Payload
SPUTNIK 41
DecayedPayloadLEO
Sputnik 41, also known as Sputnik Jr 2 and Radio Sputnik 18 (RS-18), was a Franco-Russian amateur radio satellite which was launched in 1998 to commemorate the hundredth anniversary of the Aéro-Club de France, and the forty-first anniversary of the launch of Sputnik 1, the world's first artificial satellite. A 4-kilogram (8.8 lb) one-third scale model of Sputnik 1, Sputnik 41 was deployed from the Mir space station on 10 November 1998.
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Launch
- Launch date
- October 25, 1998 at 04:14 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
- Launched by
- Soyuz U →
- Operator
- Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS)
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 154 km
- Periapsis
- 149 km
- Inclination
- 51.63°
- Orbital period
- 87.51 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 4 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1998-062C
- NORAD catalog №
- 25533
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Radar cross-section
- 0.175 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- January 11, 1999
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- January 11, 1999
- Time in service
- 78 days
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed
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