Launch Success
Liftoff Time (GMT)
06:00:00
Friday December 5, 2003
First flight of Strela.
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
1st
Mission
1st
Mission of 2003
57th
Orbital launch attempt