flown missionSuccess
Proton-K/17S40 | Iridium 09 to 14 & Iridium 16
Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center81/23 (81L) — Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
The launch vehicle successfully inserted its payload(s) into the target orbit(s).
mission
- Name
- Iridium 09 to 14 & Iridium 16
- Type
- Communications
- Target orbit
- Low Earth Orbit (LEO)
Iridium provides global mobile telecommunications services using a constellation of 66 low earth orbit satellites in a 86.4° inclined orbit. Although 77 satellites were originally envisioned for the system and spawned the name based on the 77th element in the periodic table, the system has been scaled back. Motorola's Satellite Communications Group designed and manufactured the Iridium satellites with Lockheed Martin providing the LM-700A spacecraft buses.
schedule
- NET (no earlier than)
- Window opens
- Window closes
- Last updated
vehicle & provider
- Rocket
- Proton-K/17S40
- Family
- Proton / UR-500
- Variant
- 17S40
- Provider
- Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center
- Type
- Government
- Country
- RUS
launch site
- Pad
- 81/23 (81L)
- Location
- Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Country
- KAZ
- Timezone
- Asia/Qyzylorda
- Coordinates
- 46.0740, 62.9780