RFSA Zenit-2 11K77.05 Globalstar 5, 7, 9 to 13, 16 to 18, 20, 21

Name: RFSA Zenit-2 11K77.05 Globalstar 5, 7, 9 to 13, 16 to 18, 20, 21
Start: 1998-09-09T20:29:00.000Z
Location: 45/1

Zenit-2 11K77.05

Status

Failure

Date

9 SEP 1998

20:29

Launch Provider

Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS)

Launch Pad

45/1

Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan

Mission Overview

The Globalstar global mobile communications network offers global, digital real time voice, data and fax via a constellation of 48 minisatellites. The constellation operates in a 1410 km orbit inclined at 52 degrees, and will also have 8 spares. The satellites were built by Space Systems Loral and Alenia Aerospazio in Rome, Italy.

Rocket

Zenit-2 11K77.05

Mission Type

Communications

Orbit

Low Earth Orbit

Stages

Livestream

Not available

Rocket Details

Zenit is a family of space launch vehicles designed by the Yuzhnoye Design Bureau in Dnipro, Ukraine, which was then part of the Soviet Union.

Height

57 m

Diameter

3.9 m

Launch Mass

459 T

Thrust

7,259 kN