Space AtlasCOSMOS 2159
NORAD 21730 · Payload · In orbit since 1991
View in the 3D atlas →- Launched
- 1991-09-28 · Plesetsk, Russia
- Country / operator
- CIS (Russia / CIS)
- Object type
- Payload
- Purpose
- Communications
- Mass
- 225 kg
- Size
- 1.6 × 0.8 m · 7 m deployed
- Orbit class
- LEO (< 2,000 km)
- Perigee × Apogee
- 1,387 × 1,409 km
- Inclination
- 82.6°
- Period
- 113.6 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.