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RADUGA 2

NORAD 9416 · Payload · In orbit since 1976

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Launched
1976-09-11 · 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
35,663 × 35,897 km
Inclination
3.4°
Period
1435.4 min
Eccentricity
0.0028
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.