IRS-1A

Launch Success

Liftoff Time (GMT)

06:43:00

Thursday March 17, 1988

Mission Details

Launch Notes

First Soviet commercial launch.

IRS 1A and 1B (Indian Remote Sensing Satellite) were the first of the series of indigenous state-of-art remote sensing satellites.

Low Earth Orbit

1 Payload

975 kilograms

Rocket

Retired

Vostok-2M

Active 1964 to 1991

Manufacturer

OKB-1

Rocket

Height: 38.76m

Payload to Orbit

LEO: 5,100 kg

GTO: 0 kg

Liftoff Thrust

4,570 Kilonewtons

Fairing

Diameter: 2.58m

Height: 7.14m

Stages

3

Strap-ons

4

Launch Site

Site 31/6

Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan

Fastest Turnaround

47 hr 9 min

Site 31/6

Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan

Fastest Turnaround

47 hr 9 min

Stats

Vostok-2

138th

Mission

1st

Mission of 1988

OKB-1

2181st

Mission

17th

Mission of 1988

1988

22nd

Orbital launch attempt