Launch Success
Liftoff Time (GMT)
05:57:00
Tuesday December 23, 2014
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First flight of Angara A5. First orbital flight of an Angara launcher.
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
Manufacturer
KhrunichevPrice
$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
1st
Mission
1st
Mission of 2014
87th
Orbital launch attempt