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Class: Technology. Type: Communications. Nation: USSR. Experimental satellite carried on test flight of the Start-1 carrier rocket, a new booster based on SS-25 ICBM.
SpecificationTotal Mass: 260 kg.
Start Chronology
25 March 1993
Start-1 Launch Site: Plesetsk . Launch Vehicle: Start-1. Mass: 260 kg. Perigee: 680 km. Apogee: 968 km. Inclination: 75.8 deg. Test flight of new booster based on SS-25 ICBM. Full-scale mock-up (actual weight) for the flight-design testing of the Start-1 carrier rocket. Experimental satellite launched by a Start-1 carrier rocket from the Plesetsk launch site.
Bibliography:- 2 - McDowell, Jonathan, The United Nations Registry of Space Objects, Harvard University, 1997. HTML when accessed: http://hea-www.harvard.edu/QEDT/jcm/space/un/un.html
- 6 - JPL Mission and Spacecraft Library, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 1997. HTML when accessed: http://msl.jpl.nasa.gov/home.html
- 279 - McDowell, Jonathan, Launch Log, October 1998. HTML when accessed: http://hea-www.harvard.edu/~jcm/space/log/launch.html
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