MISSION NAME
US-PM 1 1
Status
Success
DATE
30 MAR 1993
LAUNCH PROVIDER
Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS)
Launch Pad
90/20
Description
US-PM (Upravlenniye Sputnik Passivny Modifikirovanny) (also reported as US-PU) was a solar powered improved EORSAT (Electronic Ocean Reconnaissance Satellite). It used an passive ELINT devices to track naval vessels from space by registering their electronic emmissions.
Tsiklon-2
Rocket Description
The Tsyklon-2 (cyclone-2), also known as Tsiklon-2 and Tsyklon-M, GRAU index 11K69, was a Ukrainian, previously Soviet orbital carrier rocket used from the 1960s to the late 2000s.