CAS500-1 & Others
Launch Success
Liftoff Time (GMT)
06:07:12
Monday March 22, 2021
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Launch Notes
First launch fully commercialized by GK Launch Services. First Catalan and Tunisian satellite to be launched. First white Soyuz to be launched since IRS-1B in 1991.
CAS500-1
The South Korean CAS500 1 and 2 space vehicles are Earth-observation models that will image the Earth in panchromatic and multispectral modes using the AEISS-C (Advanced Earth Imaging Sensor System) payload. The CAS500 satellites will feature the AEISS-C (Advanced Earth Imaging Sensor System) imaging system with a ground resolution of 0.5 m in panchromatic mode and 2 m in color mode.
Sun-Synchronous Orbit
1 Payload
500 kilograms
Other payloads
Other payloads were flown on this mission: - ELSA-D - GRUS (x4) - NAJM-1 - DMSAT-1 - Adelis-SAMSON 1 à 3 - Kepler 6 & 7 - NANOSATC-BR2 - KMSL - Pumbaa & Timon - BEESat 5 à 8 - Hiber 3 - UniSat 7 - NIU VShE — DZZ - Sirius-NRU CubeSat - Zorkiy - SIMBA - GRBAlpha Spacecraft - Open Cosmos (x2) - KSU CubeSat - Challenge One
Sun-Synchronous Orbit
31 Payloads
Rocket
Manufacturer
RKK EnergiyaPrice
$23.00 million
Rocket
Height: 46.94m
Payload to Orbit
LEO: 7,020 kg
GTO: 2,810 kg
Liftoff Thrust
4,550 Kilonewtons
Fairing
Diameter: 4.11m
Height: 10.2m
Stages
4
Strap-ons
4
Launch Site
Stats
Soyuz 2.1a
52nd
Mission
2nd
Mission of 2021
2021
23rd
Orbital launch attempt