NEXT SPACEFLIGHT

Status

Success

Priroda

Launch Time
Tue Apr 23, 1996 11:48 UTC

Rocket

Proton-K
Roscosmos
Status: Retired
Liftoff Thrust: 9,469 kN
Payload to LEO: 20,100 kg
Payload to GTO: 0 kg
Stages: 3
Strap-ons: 0
Rocket Height: 56.14 m
Fairing Diameter: 4.15 m
Fairing Height: 16.12 m

Mission Details

Priroda

Priroda was the last of the scheduled five Russian modules of the Mir space station complex and was launched from the Baykonur cosmodrome by a Proton-K rocket to dock after 3 days rather than the usual 9 days. The launch itself was 3 days earlier than the planned date in order to facilitate an American microbiology program.

Priroda carried several remote sensing Russian instruments. Other cargo on board included 900 kg of American equipment to be delivered to the American astronaut on Mir.

It was for a while considered, that Priroda might later be attached to the planned international space station ISS. But evantually Priroda remained with the Mir-Complex until deorbiting.

Payloads: 1
Total Mass: 19,000.0 kg
Low Earth Orbit

Location

Site 81/23, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan

Stats

1996

24th orbital launch attempt

Proton-K

236th mission
4th mission of 1996
207th successful mission
2nd consecutive successful mission