MISSION NAME
Globalstar 5, 7, 9 to 13, 16 to 18, 20, 21 20
Status
Failure
DATE
9 SEP 1998
LAUNCH PROVIDER
Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS)
Launch Pad
45/1
Description
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.
Zenit-2 11K77.05
Rocket Description
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.