Status
Success
Yamal 101 & 102
Launch Time
Mon Sep 06, 1999 16:35 UTC
Mon Sep 06, 1999 16:35 UTC
Rocket
Mission Details
Yamal 101 & 102
The Yamal-100series of communications satellite was built by JSC Gascom jointly with RSC Energia under order of JSC Gazprom involving Russian cooperation and using high-quality RF equipment of the leading foreign manufacturers - Space Systems/Loral (transponders), NEC, Alenia Aerospazio, ComDev, Lockheed Martin.
Yamal-100 is the new generation Russian communications satellite. There were applied key state-of-art technologies in this satellite, including unpressurized modules, sandwich honeycomb constructions, contour antennas.
Payloads: 2
Total Mass: 2,720.0 kg
Geostationary Earth Orbit
Location
Site 81/23, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
Stats
1999
49th orbital launch attempt
Proton-K
263rd mission
7th mission of 1999
230th successful mission
1st consecutive successful mission