Launch vehicle
Zenit
- Height
- 4.6 m
- Diameter
- 0.42 m
- Stages
- 1
- Recorded launches
- 4
- First flight
- 2011-01-20
Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS)Launch Successful
Elektro-L No.1
Zenit
Historical mission record
This page records Zenit-3F | Elektro-L No.1 and its reported outcome: Launch Successful. The date above is a historical record.
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Mission status
Launch Successful
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LAUNCH SITEBaikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
Mission
Elektro-L is a series of meteorological satellites developed for the Russian Federal Space Agency by NPO Lavochkin. Electro-L №1 was the first of the series and became the first Russian weather satellite that successfully operates in geostationary orbit. It is designed to capture real-time images of clouds and the Earth’s underlying surface, heliogeophysical measurements, collection and translating hydrometeorological and service data.
- Launch vehicle
- Zenit
- Mission type
- Earth Science
- Destination orbit
- Geostationary Transfer Orbit
- Launch pad
- 45/1
- Provider
- Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS)
The vehicle
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Recorded timing
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SCHEDULED MOMENT
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Launch site & orbit
Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
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