Completed or retired · Historical mission record
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Microgravity. This reconstructed record groups 1 GCAT payload or flight element under launch 1990-032; fields not present in GCAT are intentionally left unset.
Launch profile
The launch
- Launch
- 11 April 1990, 17:00:00 UTC
- Launch location
- 53-y Nauchno-Issledovatelskiy Ispitatelniy Poligon,
- Launch vehicle
- Soyuz-U
- Orbit
- Lower low Earth orbit (inclined)
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Mission ended — Completed or retired
Operations concluded · 27 April 1990
Historical mission record
GCAT records the primary mission element as completed or no longer operational.
Hardware
Spacecraft
Photon
Microgravity.
- GCAT ID
- S20566
- Manufacturer
- Tsentral'nogo Spetsializirovannogo Konstruktorskogo Byuro
- Launch mass
- 2,222 kg
- Dimensions
- 6.5 m long · 2.4 m diameter · 6.5 m span
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