NEXT SPACEFLIGHT

Status

Success

Cosmos 2054

Launch Time
Wed Dec 27, 1989 11:10 UTC

Rocket

Proton K/Block-DM-2
RVSN USSR
Status: Retired
Liftoff Thrust: 9,548 kN
Payload to LEO: 19,000 kg
Payload to GTO: 2,400 kg
Stages: 4
Strap-ons: 0
Rocket Height: 57.64 m
Fairing Diameter: 4.35 m
Fairing Height: 10.4 m

Mission Details

Cosmos 2054

The Luch or Altair satellites were the first generation of Soviet and later Russian data relay satellites. These satellites provided communications service to the Mir space station, Buran space shuttle, Soyuz-TM spacecraft, military satellites and the TsUPK ground control center.

Luch was built by NPO-PM based on their KAUR-4 3-axis stabilized geostationary satellite platform, which featured plasma station-keeping engines and hydrazine monopropellant orientation engines. The 2400 kg satellites featured three large antennas and numerous, small helical antennas permitted data relays in the 15/14, 15/11, and 0.9/0.7 GHz bands. Each satellite was equipped with three Arion transponders by NPO Radiopribor for data transmission. The design life was five years.

Beginning in 1995, four satellites were launched. The first three were operated under the designations Cosmos 1700, Cosmos 1897 and Cosmos 2054. The Kosmos designator was dropped for the fourth satellite, which was simply refered as Luch 1. A fifth satellite was never launched.

Payloads: 1
Total Mass: 2,400.0 kg
Geostationary Earth Orbit

Location

Site 200/39, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan

Stats

1989

102nd orbital launch attempt

Proton-K

178th mission
11th mission of 1989
152nd successful mission
22nd consecutive successful mission