NEXT SPACEFLIGHT
NEXT SPACEFLIGHT

Status

Success

Cosmos 2455

Launch Time
Fri Nov 20, 2009 10:43 UTC

Rocket

Soyuz U
VKS RF
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
Details

Mission Details

Lotos-S n°01

The Russian Lotos-S1 (14F145) satellites are one component of the next generation ELINT satellite system Liana. A development version was flown as Lotos-S.

The Liana system replaces replaces both the Tselina-2 with Lotos satellites and the naval US-PM with Pion-NKS (14F139) spacecraft.

Payloads: 1
Total Mass: 6,000.0 kg
Sun-Synchronous Orbit
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Location

Site 16/2, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia

Stats

2009

66th orbital launch attempt

Soyuz U

828th mission
7th mission of 2009
806th successful mission
39th consecutive successful mission