Launch Alert | Flight 7
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Failure
Fri May 15 1987
Soviet Space Program

Polyus

Launch Failure
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RECOVERY OVERVIEW

Location

No Recovery Specified

Type

No Recovery Specified

Rocket Details

Name:

Energiya

Description:

Energia (Russian: Энергия, Energiya, "Energy") (GRAU 11K25) was a Soviet rocket that was designed by NPO Energia to serve as a heavy-lift partially recoverable launch system for a variety of payloads including the Buran spacecraft.

Energiya rocket
MISSION OVERVIEW
  • Type: Government/Top Secret
  • Satellite used to test technologies for the Skif-D SDI program
COMPLEX OVERVIEW

Location

Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan

Pad

250