MGM n°1

Launch Success

Liftoff Time (GMT)

05:57:00

Tuesday December 23, 2014

Watch Replay

Official Livestream

Mission Details

Launch Notes

First flight of Angara A5. First orbital flight of an Angara launcher.

MGM n°1

Wiki

The MGM n°1 is a vehicle evaluation payload for the first Angara A5 Briz-M launch, representing a mass model of a Russian geostationary satellite. The payload was placed into a geostationary orbit by the Briz-M stage, to which it stayed intentionally attached. After some hours, two burns of the Briz-M stage's auxiliary engines moved MGM to a graveyard orbit a few hundred kilometers above GEO.

Geostationary Earth Orbit

1 Payload

2,400 kilograms

Rocket

Active
Angara A5/Briz-M

Active Since 2014

Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center logo

Manufacturer

Khrunichev

Price

$100.00 million

Rocket

Diameter: 8.86m

Height: 55.4m

Payload to Orbit

LEO: 23,000 kg

GTO: 5,400 kg

Liftoff Thrust

9,610 Kilonewtons

Fairing

Diameter: 4.35m

Height: 15.2m

Stages

3

Strap-ons

4

Launch Site

Site 35/1

Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia

Fastest Turnaround

63 days 6 hours

Stats

Angara A5


1st

Mission

1st

Mission of 2014

2014


87th

Orbital launch attempt