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
Spektr-R (RadioAstron)
Zenit
Historical mission record
This page records Zenit-3F | Spektr-R (RadioAstron) and its reported outcome: Launch Successful. The date above is a historical record.
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Mission status
Launch Successful
Status reported by the mission data provider.
LAUNCH SITEBaikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
Mission
The RadioAstron is an international space Very Long Baseline Interferometry project led by the Astro Space Center of Lebedev Physical Institute in Moscow, Russia. The aim of the mission is to use the Spektr-R space telescope to conduct interferometer observations in conjunction with the global ground radio telescope network in order to obtain images, coordinates, motions and evolution of angular structure of different radio emitting objects in the Universe with the extraordinary high angular resolution.
- Launch vehicle
- Zenit
- Mission type
- Astrophysics
- Destination orbit
- Elliptical Orbit
- Launch pad
- 45/1
- Provider
- Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS)
The vehicle
Published configuration and flight history.
Recorded timing
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SCHEDULED MOMENT
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Launch site & orbit
Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
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Launch site
DestinationElliptical Orbit
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