Completed or retired · Historical mission record
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The mission
Microgravity. This reconstructed record groups 1 GCAT payload or flight element under launch 1995-006; fields not present in GCAT are intentionally left unset.
Launch profile
The launch
- Launch
- 16 February 1995, 17:39:59 UTC
- Launch location
- 1-y Gosudarstvenniy Ispitatelniy Kosmodrom MO RF
- Launch vehicle
- Soyuz-U
- Orbit
- Lower low Earth orbit (inclined)
Flight data
Launch intelligence
A Roscosmos Soyuz-U rocket launched the Foton mission on Thursday, February 16, 1995 at 5:39 PM (UTC).
- Launch provider
- Roscosmos
- Vehicle
- Soyuz-U
- COSPAR launch ID
- 1995-006
- Flight profile
- Orbital
- Launch result
- Success
- Window opens
- Not published
- Target T-0
- Feb 16, 1995, 17:39 UTC
- Window closes
- Not published
- Provider display
- Feb 16 1995
- Pad and location
- LC-43/4, Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Trajectory
Mission timeline
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Mission ended — Completed or retired
Operations concluded · 3 March 1995
Historical mission record
GCAT records the primary mission element as completed or no longer operational.
Hardware
Spacecraft
FOTON
Microgravity.
- GCAT ID
- S23497
- Manufacturer
- Tsentral'nogo Spetsializirovannogo Konstruktorskogo Byuro
- Launch mass
- 2,250 kg
- Dimensions
- 6.5 m long · 2.4 m diameter · 6.5 m span
Visual archive
Gallery
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