Proton-M/Briz-M | Cosmos 2533

Launch Time
Fri Dec 21, 2018 00:20 UTC

Orbit slightly too low, but as this will not impact the satellite's lifetime, the flight is considered a success.

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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

Details

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

109th orbital launch attempt

104th mission

2nd mission of 2018

93rd successful mission

14th consecutive successful mission