Start-1.2 | Zeya
Status: Success | Launched: Mar 04, 1997 02:00 UTC
Launch Provider & Rocket
- Provider: Strategic Rocket Forces (Government)
- Rocket: Start-1.2 — Start family
Mission
The Mozhayets 2 (Zeya, RS 16) satellite was a Russian Military experimental communications satellite launched on 4 March 1997. Zeya was named after the Zeya River, which is very close to its launch site, Cosmodrome Svobodniy. A Start-1.2 rocket transported it into orbit. This was the first satellite launched from this new Russian launch site in far eastern Russia.
- Type: Navigation
- Orbit: Low Earth Orbit (LEO)
Launch Site
- Pad: 5
- Location: Svobodny Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
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