Proton | Priroda

Launch Provider & Rocket

• Provider: Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center (Government)
• Rocket: Proton-K — Proton / UR-500 family

Mission

Priroda was the last of the scheduled five Russian modules of the Mir space station complex and was launched from the Baykonur cosmodrome by a Proton-K rocket to dock after 3 days rather than the usual 9 days. The launch itself was 3 days earlier than the planned date in order to facilitate an American microbiology program.

• Type: Human Exploration
• Orbit: Low Earth Orbit (LEO)

Launch Site

• Pad: 81/23 (81L)
• Location: Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
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Program

• Mir — Mir was a space station that operated in low Earth orbit from 1986 to 2001, operated by the Soviet Union and later by Russia. Mir was the first modular space station and was assembled in orbit from 1986 to 1996. (Wikipedia)