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Soyuz-U-PVB | Foton-M No. 1
Russian Space Forces43/3 (43L) — Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
Either the launch vehicle did not reach orbit, or the payload(s) failed to separate.
mission
- Name
- Foton-M No. 1
- Type
- Earth Science
- Target orbit
- Low Earth Orbit (LEO)
Foton-M No.1 was a mission by the European Space Agency aboard a Russian Soyuz-U rocket that failed to launch successfully. The spacecraft's payload consisted of 44 experiments prepared by the European Space Agency, Fluidpac, BIOPAN-4, Telescience Support Unit, and others. Investigation found that the most likely cause of the failure was debris being ingested into the Blok D hydrogen peroxide pump, cutting off the supply of lubricant to the turbopumps. This was the first failure of an R-7 launch vehicle in the first two minutes of launch since 1988.
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vehicle & provider
- Rocket
- Soyuz-U-PVB
- Family
- Soyuz
- Variant
- U-PVB
- Provider
- Russian Space Forces
- Type
- Government
- Country
- RUS
launch site
- Pad
- 43/3 (43L)
- Location
- Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Country
- RUS
- Timezone
- Europe/Moscow
- Coordinates
- 62.9273, 40.4500