Zarya

Launch Success

Liftoff Time (GMT)

06:40:00

Friday November 20, 1998

Mission Details

Launch Notes

First module of the ISS to be launched.

Zarya

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The Zarya Control Module, also known by the technical term Functional Cargo Block and the Russian acronym FGB, was the first component launched for the International Space Station. This module was designed to provide the station's initial propulsion and power. The 19,323 kilogram pressurized module was launched on a Russian Proton rocket in November 1998. The U.S.-funded and Russian-built Zarya, which means "Sunrise" when translated into English, is a U.S. component of the station, although it was built and launched by Russia. The module was built by the Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center, which is also known as KhSC, in Moscow under a subcontract to The Boeing Company for NASA. Only weeks after Zarya reached orbit, Space Shuttle Endeavour made a rendezvous and attached a U.S.-built connecting module called Node 1, or Unity. The Zarya Module provided orientation control, communications and electrical power attached to the passive Node 1 while the station awaited launch of the third component, a Russian-provided crew living quarters and early station core known as the Zvezda Service Service Module. The Service Module enhanced or replaced many functions of Zarya. The Zarya module is now used primarily for its storage capacity and external fuel tanks.

Low Earth Orbit

1 Payload

19,323 kilograms

Rocket

Retired
Proton-K

Active 1968 to 2000

Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center logo

Manufacturer

Khrunichev

Rocket

Height: 56.14m

Payload to Orbit

LEO: 20,100 kg

GTO: 0 kg

Liftoff Thrust

9,469 Kilonewtons

Fairing

Diameter: 4.15m

Height: 16.12m

Stages

3

Launch Site

Site 81/23

Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan

Fastest Turnaround

11 days 23 hours

Stats

Proton-K


255th

Mission

6th

Mission of 1998

1998


72nd

Orbital launch attempt