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RADUGA 17

NORAD 16250 · Payload · In orbit since 1985

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Launched
1985-11-15 · Baikonur, Kazakhstan
Country / operator
CIS (Russia / CIS)
Object type
Payload
Purpose
Communications
Mass
1,965 kg
Size
5.5 × 2.5 m · 9.5 m deployed
Perigee × Apogee
35,771 × 35,885 km
Inclination
9.5°
Period
1437.8 min
Eccentricity
0.0014
Orbit data
Reconstructed from catalog orbit

Mass, size and purpose from GCAT (J. McDowell, CC BY 4.0).

Same launch

Other objects cataloged from the same launch day and site: co-passengers and the rocket body.