Gruzomaket

Launch Success

Liftoff Time (GMT)

06:00:00

Friday December 5, 2003

Mission Details

Launch Notes

First flight of Strela.

Gruzomaket

Wiki

The Gruzomaket (or Kondor-E-GVM) ws a vehicle evaluation payload representing a dynamic model of the Kondor / Kondor-E Earth observation satellite. The weight spacecraft dummy was injected with the help of the Strela launch vehicle at the orbit with inclination of 67.067 deg, apogee height 458.8 km, perigee height 458 km. The altitude error was not more than 1% (for such altitude, about 5 km) and in inclination the error was not more than 0.05 deg, this value meets operational requirements.

Low Earth Orbit

1 Payload

978 kilograms

Rocket

Retired
Strela

Active 2003 to 2014

NPO Mashinostroyeniya logo

Manufacturer

NPO Mash

Rocket

Height: 27.36m

Payload to Orbit

LEO: 1,850 kg

GTO: 0 kg

Liftoff Thrust

1,870 Kilonewtons

Fairing

Diameter: 2.5m

Height: 7.6m

Stages

3

Launch Site

Site 175/59

Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan

Fastest Turnaround

539 days 11 hours

Stats

Strela


1st

Mission

1st

Mission of 2003

2003


57th

Orbital launch attempt