Launch Success
Liftoff Time (GMT)
14:30:55
Monday October 31, 1994
Elektro (or GOMS, Geostationary Operational Meteorological Satellite) is a three-axis stabilized satellite with a payload that includes a three-channel, earth-imaging radiometer as well as comprehensive communications facilities together with a capability to measure space radiation spectra and densities. It is the space component of the Planeta-C Meteorological Space System. The communications system transmits image data and space environment data to the ground, collects environmental data from Data Collection Platforms (DCP), exchanges satellite-based data among ground stations, and will deliver information to the user community on an operational basis. The GOMS imaging instrument is the Scanning Television Radiometer (STR), which has a capability of generating images every 30 minutes, day and night, using visible and infrared channels. STR images are transmitted to the ground with eight-bit radiometric resolution (256 grey levels) at 2.56 Mbps. As well as the earth-imaging STR, GOMS also carries a complex space radiation and magnetometry monitoring system, described in the reference for further reading, and a communications system. This uses the band at 7.5 GHz (with 1.7 GHz as an alternative) to transmit image and space environment data transmissions to the main data receiving and processing centres. The band at 1.7 GHz is used for the relay of digital, alphanumeric, and facsimile information from the processing centres to user stations. Other bands are used for satellite control, DCP data collection, etc.
Geostationary Earth Orbit
1 Payload
2,580 kilograms
Manufacturer
KhrunichevRocket
Height: 57.64m
Payload to Orbit
LEO: 19,000 kg
GTO: 2,400 kg
Liftoff Thrust
9,548 Kilonewtons
Fairing
Diameter: 4.35m
Height: 10.4m
Stages
4
222nd
Mission
10th
Mission of 1994
72nd
Orbital launch attempt