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MAGION 5

1. Launching State

  • The Russian Federation together with Czech Republic and Austria

2. An appropriate designator of the space object or its registration number

  • Magion 5, 1996 – 050B

3. Date and territory or location of launch

  • August 29, 1996, The Russian Federation

4. Basic orbit parameters:

a) Nodal period

  • 347.46 min

b) Inclination

  • 62.8 degrees

c) Apogee

  • 19,196 km

d) Perigee

  • 791 km

5. General function of space object:

  • studies of the mechanisms for transporting energy from the solar wind info the magnetosphere