LAUNCH CENTER

Launch Image
Failure
Wed Sep 09 1998
Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS)

Globalstar 5, 7, 9 to 13, 16 to 18, 20, 21

Launch Failure
LAUNCH PREVIEW

Launch Time

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(8:29 PM UTC)

Launch Window Start

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(8:29 PM UTC)

Launch Window End

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(8:29 PM UTC)

RECOVERY OVERVIEW

Location

No Recovery Specified

Type

No Recovery Specified

Rocket Details

Name:

Zenit-2 11K77.05

Description:

Zenit is a family of space launch vehicles designed by the Yuzhnoye Design Bureau in Dnipro, Ukraine, which was then part of the Soviet Union.

Zenit-2 11K77.05 rocket
MISSION OVERVIEW
  • Type: Communications
  • The Globalstar global mobile communications network offers global, digital real time voice, data and fax via a constellation of 48 minisatellites. The constellation operates in a 1410 km orbit inclined at 52 degrees, and will also have 8 spares. The satellites were built by Space Systems Loral and Alenia Aerospazio in Rome, Italy.
COMPLEX OVERVIEW

Location

Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan

Pad

45/1