Foton 11 & Mirka

Name: Soyuz U | Foton 11 & Mirka
Start: 1997-10-09T17:59:00+00:00
End: 1997-10-09T18:59:00+00:00
Location: 43/3 (43L)

Soyuz U

Strategic Rocket Forces

Launch Status

Success

Thu • Oct 9th, 1997
5:59 PM UTC

Mission

Foton 11 & Mirka

Type: Planetary Science

Foton was a series of Soviet and later Russian material sciences research satellites. Mirka is a dedicated research capsule solely for performance of re-entry experiments.

Trajectory

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Location

43/3 (43L)

Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation

1662 rockets have launched from Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation.

Agency

Strategic Rocket Forces – RVSN RF

Type: Government
Abbreviation: RVSN RF
Founded: 1959
Country: RUS

The Strategic Rocket Forces of the Russian Federation are a separate-troops branch of the Russian Armed Forces that control Russia’s land-based intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs).

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