RVSN RF Start-1.2 Zeya

Start-1.2

Status

Success

Date

4 MAR 1997

02:00

Launch Provider

Strategic Rocket Forces

Launch Pad

Svobodny Cosmodrome, Russian Federation

Mission Overview

The Mozhayets 2 (Zeya, RS 16) satellite was a Russian Military experimental communications satellite launched on 4 March 1997. Zeya was named after the Zeya River, which is very close to its launch site, Cosmodrome Svobodniy. A Start-1.2 rocket transported it into orbit. This was the first satellite launched from this new Russian launch site in far eastern Russia.

Rocket

Start-1.2

Mission Type

Navigation

Orbit

Low Earth Orbit

Livestream

Not available

Rocket Details

Start-1 is a Russian satellite launch vehicle based on the RT-2PM Topol, a Soviet intercontinental ballistic missile developed by Moscow Institute of Thermal Technology.

Height

22.7 m

Diameter

1.8 m

Launch Mass

47 T

Thrust

500 kN