Zeya

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Zeya

Class: Earth. Type: Geodetic. Nation: USSR. Agency: Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation. Manufacturer: NPO Prikladnoi Mekhaniki, Zhelenogorsk.

The Zeya satellite was used for navigation and geodesy tests from a sun-synchronous orbit. Also known as Mozhaets, the satellite was designed by students of the Mozhaiskiy military space engineering academy and built at NPO-PM. It used the obsolete Strela-1M satellite bus. It was the payload for the first launch from Russia's Svobodniy cosmodrome.

Specification

Zeya Chronology

04 March 1997

Zeya

Launch Site

Svobodniy

Launch Vehicle

Start-1

Perigee

Apogee

Inclination

Bibliography:

4 - McDowell, Jonathan, Jonathan's Space Report (Internet Newsletter), Harvard University, Weekly, 1989 to Present. HTML when accessed: ftp://sao-ftp.harvard.edu/pub/jcm/space/news
449 - Golotyuk, S, Novosti kosmonavtiki, "Sputnikostroiteli s beregov Yeniseya", No. 10, 1999, p. 64.

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