NEXT SPACEFLIGHT

Status

Success

Yamal 101 & 102

Launch Time
Mon Sep 06, 1999 16:35 UTC

Rocket

Proton-K/Block DM-2M
Roscosmos
Status: Retired
Liftoff Thrust: 9,548 kN
Payload to LEO: 19,000 kg
Payload to GTO: 2,500 kg
Stages: 4
Strap-ons: 0
Rocket Height: 57.64 m
Fairing Diameter: 4.35 m
Fairing Height: 10.4 m

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