Cosmos 2517

Launch Success

Liftoff Time (GMT)

14:00:14

Saturday June 4, 2016

Watch Replay

Official Livestream

Mission Details

Cosmos 2517

Wiki

The Geo-IK-2 is a Russian series of new generation military geodesy satellites replacing the Soviet Union's Geo-IK and Sfera constellations. They are intended to be used to create high precision three-dimensional maps of the Earth's surface, and to monitor plate tectonics. The satellites are produced by ISS Reshetnev, and have a mass of around 1,400 kilograms. They operate in a circular orbit at an altitude of around 1,000 kilometres above the Earth's surface. The satellite consists of a pressurized container, that is 1,3 m in diameter and length, heat-regulation shutters, honeycomb panels, and an astroplate with an antenna assembly and rigidly fixed solar arrays. Some elements of the electric power supply system and the thruster units of the propulsion system were taken from the Glonass-M spacecraft, parts of the attitude and orbit control system were borrowed from SESAT, Ekspress-AM and Luch-4.

Low Earth Orbit

1 Payload

1,400 kilograms

Rocket

Retired
Rokot/Briz KM

Active 2000 to 2019

Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center logo

Manufacturer

Khrunichev

Price

$13.00 million

Rocket

Height: 29.1m

Payload to Orbit

LEO: 2,150 kg

GTO: 0 kg

Liftoff Thrust

1,875 Kilonewtons

Fairing

Diameter: 2.62m

Height: 6.74m

Stages

3

Launch Site

Site 133/3

Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia

Fastest Turnaround

3 days 23 hours

Stats

Rokot


29th

Mission

2nd

Mission of 2016

2016


34th

Orbital launch attempt