NEXT SPACEFLIGHT

Status

Success

Cosmos 1543

Launch Time
Sat Mar 10, 1984 17:00 UTC

Rocket

Soyuz U
RVSN USSR
Status: Retired
Price: $20.0 million
Liftoff Thrust: 4,456 kN
Payload to LEO: 6,860 kg
Payload to GTO: 0 kg
Stages: 3
Strap-ons: 4
Rocket Height: 51.32 m
Fairing Diameter: 3.0 m
Fairing Height: 15.59 m

Mission Details

Cosmos 1543

The Efir missions were scientific missions based on the Zenit / Vostok type spacecraft. Efir was to measure the energy spectrum and charge composition of primary cosmic rays with energy above 2 TeV.

The experiment was carried out with the detectors Sokol and Sokol-2.

Payloads: 1
Total Mass: 6,300.0 kg
Low Earth Orbit

Location

Site 41/1, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia

Stats

1984

26th orbital launch attempt

Soyuz U

362nd mission
9th mission of 1984
350th successful mission
17th consecutive successful mission