NEXT SPACEFLIGHT

Status

Success

MGM n°2

Launch Time
Mon Dec 14, 2020 05:50 UTC

First flight of Angara since 2014.

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

Mission Details

MGM n°2

The MGM n°2 is a vehicle evaluation payload for the second 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

Location

Site 35/1, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia

Stats

2020

106th orbital launch attempt

Angara A5

2nd mission
1st mission of 2020
2nd successful mission