GENESIS 2

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GENESIS 2 is classified as:

Experimental

NORAD ID: 31789

Int'l Code: 2007-028A

Perigee: 492.0 km

Apogee: 561.1 km

Inclination: 64.5 °

Period: 95.0 minutes

Semi major axis: 6897 km

RCS: 5.233 m² (large)

Launch date: June 28, 2007
Source: United States (US)
Launch site: Orenburg, Russia (OREN)

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.

1 31789U 07028A   16273.00553965  .00001412  00000-0  82723-4 0  9991
2 31789  64.5030  95.2561 0050121 253.0521 106.5104 15.15513148509312

Source of the keplerian elements: AFSPC