Launch Alert | Flight 7
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Fri Dec 28 2001
Russian Space Forces

Strela-3 128 to 130 & Gonets 10 to 12

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RECOVERY OVERVIEW

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No Recovery Specified

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Rocket Details

Name:

Tsiklon-3

Description:

The Tsyklon-3 was a Soviet, and subsequently Ukrainian orbital carrier rocket. A derivative of the R-36 ICBM, and a member of the Tsyklon family, it made its maiden flight on 24 June 1977, and was retired on 30 January 2009.

Tsiklon-3 rocket
MISSION OVERVIEW
  • Type: Communications
  • Gonets- satellite were the civilian derivate of the military Strela-3 satellite system. The Gonets system was offered to support international health organizations to meet their global communications needs for the transfer of medical data and records to remote sites. Strela-3 was second generation of strategic store-dump military communications satellite. Development of this generation to replace the first generation Strela-1M and Strela-2M satellites began in 1973.
COMPLEX OVERVIEW

Location

Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation

Pad

32/1