Status
Success
Radio-ROSTO & Naryad-V
Mon Dec 26, 1994 03:01 UTC
First orbital flight of Rokot.
Last flight of Rokot from the Baikonur cosmodrome.
Rocket
Mission Details
Radio-ROSTO
Radio-ROSTO, also known as RS 15, was a small amateur radio satellite launched on the maiden orbital flight of the Rokot-K booster.
The satellite was constructed using a surplus Strela-1M satellite. The payload was the BRTK-11 electronic billboard (RS 15) for use by amateur radio operators. The transponders worked at an uplink frequency band of 145.857-145.897 MHz and a downlink frequency band of 29.357-29.397 MHz with an output power of 5 W.
Radio-ROSTO was a precursor mission to a proposed constellation of six Radio-M spacecraft, which were eventually not realized.
After 21 years in orbit the solar cells still power the beacon when in sunlight.
Naryad-V
Anti-satellite satellite.