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Zenit-3F | Elektro-L No.1
Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS)45/1 — Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
The launch vehicle successfully inserted its payload(s) into the target orbit(s).
mission
- Name
- Elektro-L No.1
- Type
- Earth Science
- Target orbit
- Geostationary Transfer Orbit (GTO)
Elektro-L is a series of meteorological satellites developed for the Russian Federal Space Agency by NPO Lavochkin. Electro-L №1 was the first of the series and became the first Russian weather satellite that successfully operates in geostationary orbit. It is designed to capture real-time images of clouds and the Earth’s underlying surface, heliogeophysical measurements, collection and translating hydrometeorological and service data.
schedule
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vehicle & provider
- Rocket
- Zenit
- Family
- Zenith
- Provider
- Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS)
- Type
- Government
- Country
- RUS
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launch site
- Pad
- 45/1
- Location
- Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Country
- KAZ
- Timezone
- Asia/Qyzylorda
- Coordinates
- 45.9435, 63.6530