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EKRAN 15

NORAD 16729 · Payload · In orbit since 1986

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Launched
1986-05-24 · Baikonur, Kazakhstan
Country / operator
CIS (Russia / CIS)
Object type
Payload
Purpose
Communications
Mass
2,000 kg
Size
5.5 × 2.5 m · 9 m deployed
Perigee × Apogee
36,825 × 36,904 km
Inclination
11.4°
Period
1491.1 min
Eccentricity
0.0009
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.