MISSION NAME
Polyus
Status
Failure
DATE
15 MAY 1987
LAUNCH PROVIDER
Soviet Space Program
Launch Pad
250
Description
Satellite used to test technologies for the Skif-D SDI program
Energiya
Rocket Description
Energia (Russian: Энергия, Energiya, "Energy") (GRAU 11K25) was a Soviet rocket that was designed by NPO Energia to serve as a heavy-lift partially recoverable launch system for a variety of payloads including the Buran spacecraft.