Angara A5/Briz-M | MGM n°1

Status

Success

MGM n°1

Launch Time
Tue Dec 23, 2014 05:57 UTC

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

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Rocket

Angara A5/Briz-M

Image Credit: VKS RF

VKS RF

Status: Active

Price: $100.0 million

Liftoff Thrust: 9,610 kN

Payload to LEO: 23,000 kg

Payload to GTO: 5,400 kg

Stages: 3

Strap-ons: 4

Rocket Height: 55.4 m

Fairing Diameter: 4.35 m

Fairing Height: 15.2 m

Details

Mission Details

MGM n°1

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.

Payloads: 1

Total Mass: 2,400.0 kg

Geostationary Earth Orbit

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Location

Site 35/1, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia

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Stats

2014

87th orbital launch attempt

Angara A5

1st mission

1st mission of 2014

1st successful mission