NEXT SPACEFLIGHT

Status

Success

Cosmos 2520

Launch Time
Wed Aug 16, 2017 22:07 UTC

Rocket

Proton-M/Briz-M
Roscosmos
Status: Active
Price: $65.0 million
Liftoff Thrust: 10,027 kN
Payload to LEO: 21,000 kg
Payload to GTO: 6,900 kg
Stages: 4
Strap-ons: 0
Rocket Height: 58.18 m
Fairing Diameter: 4.35 m
Fairing Height: 15.26 m

Mission Details

Cosmos 2520

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.

Payloads: 1
Geostationary Earth Orbit

Location

Site 81/24, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan

Stats

2017

50th orbital launch attempt

Proton-M

100th mission
2nd mission of 2017
89th successful mission
10th consecutive successful mission