GVM Demo Flight

Launch Success

Liftoff Time (GMT)

23:59:59

Friday December 20, 1991

Mission Details

Launch Notes

Final suborbital test flight of Rokot.

GVM Demo Flight

The launcher was equipped with a simulation mass that replaced the satellite.

Suborbital

1 Payload

Rocket

Retired
Rokot/Briz K

Active 1990 to 1994

Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center logo

Manufacturer

Khrunichev

Rocket

Height: 25.5m

Payload to Orbit

LEO: 1,500 kg

GTO: 0 kg

Liftoff Thrust

1,875 Kilonewtons

Fairing

Diameter: 2.5m

Height: 3m

Stages

3

Launch Site

Site 175/58

Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan

Fastest Turnaround

1,101 days

Stats

Rokot


2nd

Mission

1st

Mission of 1991

Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center


2476th

Mission

62nd

Mission of 1991