Earth orbit
Priroda
SAR, radiometers, ozone.
Completed or retired · Historical mission record
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The mission
SAR, radiometers, ozone. This reconstructed record groups 1 GCAT payload or flight element under launch 1996-023; fields not present in GCAT are intentionally left unset.
Launch profile
The launch
- Launch
- 23 April 1996, 11:48:50 UTC
- Launch location
- GIK-5, Baykonur, Kazakstan
- Launch vehicle
- Proton-K
- Orbit
- Lower low Earth orbit (inclined)
Flight data
Launch intelligence
A Russian Military Proton-K rocket launched the Priroda mission on Tuesday, April 23, 1996 at 11:48 AM (UTC).
- Launch provider
- Russian Military
- Vehicle
- Proton-K
- COSPAR launch ID
- 1996-023
- Flight profile
- Orbital
- Launch result
- Success
- Window opens
- Not published
- Target T-0
- Apr 23, 1996, 11:48 UTC
- Window closes
- Not published
- Provider display
- Apr 23 1996
- Pad and location
- LC-81/23, Baikonur Cosmodrome
Trajectory
Mission timeline
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Mission ended — Completed or retired
Operations concluded · 23 March 2001
Historical mission record
GCAT records the primary mission element as completed or no longer operational.
Hardware
Spacecraft
Priroda
SAR, radiometers, ozone.
- GCAT ID
- S23848
- Manufacturer
- GKNPTs im. M.V. Khrunichev, Zavod Khrunichev
- Launch mass
- 19,470 kg
- Dimensions
- 15 m long · 4.1 m diameter · 15 m span
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