GENESIS 2

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GENESIS 2 is classified as:

Experimental

NORAD ID: 31789

Int'l Code: 2007-028A

Perigee: 377.9 km

Apogee: 397.7 km

Inclination: 64.5 °

Period: 92.2 minutes

Semi major axis: 6758 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   25077.17029460  .00101275  00000-0  11169-2 0  9991
2 31789  64.4819 353.4228 0014680 315.1368  44.8589 15.62421302979879

Source of the keplerian elements: AFSPC