GENESIS 2

NORAD ID: 31789
Int'l Code: 2007-028A
Perigee: 523.5 km
Apogee: 591.4 km
Inclination: 64.5 °
Period: 95.7 minutes
Semi major axis: 6,928.5 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.


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