RFSA Tsiklon-2 US-PM 9

Name: RFSA Tsiklon-2 US-PM 9
Start: 1997-12-09T07:17:20.000Z
Location: 90/19

Tsiklon-2

Status

Success

Date

9 DEC 1997

07:17

Launch Provider

Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS)

Launch Pad

90/19

Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan

Mission Overview

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.

Rocket

Tsiklon-2

Mission Type

Government/Top Secret

Orbit

Low Earth Orbit

Stages

Livestream

Not available

Rocket Details

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.

Height

39.7 m

Diameter

3 m

Launch Mass

182 T

Thrust

2,366 kN