Cosmos 2520

Launch Success

Liftoff Time (GMT)

22:07:00

Wednesday August 16, 2017

Watch Replay

Official Livestream

Mission Details

Cosmos 2520

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Blagovest is a series of four planned communications satellites for russian domestic services. The spacecraft and the payload is built by russian ISS Reshetnev based on the Ekspress-2000 bus.

Geostationary Earth Orbit

1 Payload

Rocket

Active
Proton-M/Briz-M

Active Since 2001

Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center logo

Manufacturer

Khrunichev

Price

$65.00 million

Rocket

Height: 58.18m

Payload to Orbit

LEO: 21,000 kg

GTO: 6,900 kg

Liftoff Thrust

10,027 Kilonewtons

Fairing

Diameter: 4.35m

Height: 15.26m

Stages

4

Launch Site

Site 81/24

Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan

Fastest Turnaround

6 days

Stats

Proton-M


100th

Mission

2nd

Mission of 2017

2017


50th

Orbital launch attempt