Experimental
NORAD ID: 31789
Int'l Code: 2007-028A
Perigee: 520.9 km
Apogee: 551.9 km
Inclination: 64.5 °
Period: 95.2 minutes
Semi major axis: 6907 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 15031.15865736 .00005233 00000-0 31015-3 0 1703
2 31789 064.5072 269.7258 0022455 330.9502 029.0367 15.12283542417421
Source: AFSPC
NASA's NSSDC Master Catalog entry for GENESIS 2
