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Radio Sputnik 2
Amateur radio satellite. Radio Sputnik 2 was launched on October 26, 1978 aboard a Tsiklon-3 from Plesetsk. Latest status in GCAT: in orbit.
COSPAR 1978-100CNORAD 11086Soviet Union
Identity
- Name in GCAT
- Radio RS-2
- Common name
- Radio Sputnik 2
- Payload designation
- RS-2
- Other names
- Iskra-4A
- International designator
- 1978-100C
- NORAD catalog number
- 11086
- GCAT identifier
- S11086
- UN registration
- ST/SG/SER.E/017
Mission
- Mission type
- Communications
- Use
- Defense
- Program
- Radio RS
- Owner
- MAI Moskva
- Country
- Soviet Union
- Builder
- Moscow Power Engineering Institute
- Platform (bus)
- RS
Launch
- Date
- October 26, 1978 · 07:00 UTC
- Launch record
- 1978-100Success
- Rocket
- Tsiklon-3
- Spaceport
- Plesetsk · pad LC32/2
Orbit and fate
- Orbit class (GCAT)
- LEO/I
- Perigee
- 1,685 km
- Apogee
- 1,706 km
- Inclination
- 82.55°
- Status
- In orbit
- Last known active
- July 1979
- End of operations
- July 1979
Size
- Mass
- 40 kg
- Dry mass
- 40 kg
- Length
- 0.3 m
- Diameter
- 0.40 m
- Span
- 1.5 m
Source: GCAT payload, deep-space and lander catalogs, Jonathan C. McDowell (CC BY 4.0); Wikidata Q60772866 (CC0).