Completed or retired · Historical mission record
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The mission
Microgravity/Life sci. This reconstructed record groups 1 GCAT payload or flight element under launch 1997-060; fields not present in GCAT are intentionally left unset.
Launch profile
The launch
- Launch
- 9 October 1997, 17:59:59 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, October 9, 1997 at 5:59 PM (UTC).
- Launch provider
- Roscosmos
- Vehicle
- Soyuz-U
- COSPAR launch ID
- 1997-060
- Flight profile
- Orbital
- Launch result
- Success
- Window opens
- Not published
- Target T-0
- Oct 9, 1997, 17:59 UTC
- Window closes
- Not published
- Provider display
- Oct 09 1997
- Pad and location
- LC-43/3, Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Trajectory
Mission timeline
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Mission ended — Completed or retired
Operations concluded · 23 October 1997
Historical mission record
GCAT records the primary mission element as completed or no longer operational.
Hardware
Spacecraft
Foton
Microgravity/Life sci.
- GCAT ID
- S25006
- Manufacturer
- Zavod GNPTKTs TsSKB-Progress
- Launch mass
- 2,400 kg
- Dimensions
- 6.5 m long · 2.4 m diameter · 6.5 m span
Visual archive
Gallery
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Verification
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