NEXT SPACEFLIGHT

Status

Success

Oscar-21

Launch Time
Tue Jan 29, 1991 11:59 UTC

Rocket

Cosmos-3M
Image Credit: OKB-586
RVSN USSR
Status: Retired
Liftoff Thrust: 1,486 kN
Payload to LEO: 1,500 kg
Payload to GTO: 0 kg
Stages: 2
Strap-ons: 0
Rocket Height: 32.42 m
Fairing Diameter: 2.44 m
Fairing Height: 5.72 m

Mission Details

Oscar-21

Informator 1 was a prototype communications satellite for the Koskon (Space Conversion) Global Space Communication System to collect and transmit data from several scientific stations with an additional radio amateur hosted payload.

Payloads: 1
Total Mass: 600.0 kg
Low Earth Orbit

Location

Site 133/3, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia

Stats

1991

6th orbital launch attempt

Cosmos-3

410th mission
1st mission of 1991
384th successful mission
40th consecutive successful mission