Experimental
NORAD ID: 31789
Int'l Code: 2007-028A
Perigee: 539.9 km
Apogee: 544.2 km
Inclination: 64.5 °
Period: 95.3 minutes
Semi major axis: 6913 km
Launch date: June 28, 2007
Source: United States (US)
Comments: Genesis II is the second experimental pathfinder spacecraft designed to test and confirm systems for future manned commercial space modules planned by Las Vegas-based Bigelow Aerospace The privately-funded space station module was launched atop a Dnepr rocket at 8:02 a.m. PDT from the ISC Kosmotras Yasny Cosmodrome, located in the Orenburg region of Russia, and was inserted into orbit at 8:16 a.m. PDT at an inclination of 64 degrees.
Two Line Element Set (TLE):
1 31789U 07028A 14208.81922580 .00001451 00000-0 99216-4 0 11
2 31789 064.5077 156.3265 0003122 249.1338 110.9447 15.10409897389117
Source: AFSPC
NASA's NSSDC Master Catalog entry for GENESIS 2
