GENESIS 2

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GENESIS 2 is classified as:

Experimental

NORAD ID: 31789

Int'l Code: 2007-028A

Perigee: 448.8 km

Apogee: 485.6 km

Inclination: 64.5 °

Period: 93.8 minutes

Semi major axis: 6838 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   24129.30929986  .00016085  00000-0  46720-3 0  9991
2 31789  64.4913 345.9839 0026935 223.4380 136.4630 15.35298226931295

Source of the keplerian elements: AFSPC