UoSat 12

Launch Success

Liftoff Time (GMT)

04:59:12

Wednesday April 21, 1999

Mission Details

Launch Notes

First flight of Dnepr.

UoSat 12

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Building on the experience and technology of its modular microsatellite platform, SSTL is developing a mini-satellite platform. This platform permits payloads to be carried with greater power, volume, and mass than that available on the standard microsatellite bus. It has civil and military applications in LEO communications, remote sensing and space science, and can be deployed in LEO, GEO or interplanetary orbits.

Low Earth Orbit

1 Payload

Rocket

Retired
Dnepr

Active 1999 to 2015

Yuzhnoye logo

Manufacturer

Yuzhnoye

Price

$29.00 million

Rocket

Height: 34.3m

Payload to Orbit

LEO: 4,500 kg

GTO: 500 kg

Liftoff Thrust

4,166 Kilonewtons

Fairing

Diameter: 3m

Height: 7.45m

Stages

3

Launch Site

Site 109/95

Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan

Fastest Turnaround

58 days 19 hours

Stats

Dnepr


1st

Mission

1st

Mission of 1999

1999


21st

Orbital launch attempt