Angara A5/Blok DM-03

Status

Failure

MGM n°3

Launch Time
Mon Dec 27, 2021 19:00 UTC

First flight of the Persey upper stage. Last of the three demonstration flights planned. Upper stage failed to restart for 2nd burn leaving upper stage & payload in LEO.

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Rocket

Angara A5/Blok DM-03

Image Credit: Roscosmos

VKS RF

Status: Active

Price: $100.0 million

Liftoff Thrust: 9,610 kN

Payload to LEO: 23,000 kg

Payload to GTO: 5,400 kg

Stages: 3

Strap-ons: 4

Rocket Height: 55.4 m

Fairing Diameter: 4.35 m

Fairing Height: 15.2 m

Details

Mission Details

MGM n°3

The MGM n°3 is a vehicle evaluation payload for the third launch of Angara A5, representing a mass model of a geostationary satellite.

The dummy payload will be placed into a near geostationary orbit by the new Persey upper stage. After some hours, two burns of the Persey stage's auxiliary engines will move MGM to a graveyard orbit a few hundred km above GEO.

Payloads: 1

Total Mass: 2,400.0 kg

Geostationary Earth Orbit

Location

Site 35/1, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia

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Stats

2021

141st orbital launch attempt

Angara A5

3rd mission

1st mission of 2021

1st failed mission