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Foton 11 & Mirka

Soyuz U

Strategic Rocket Forces

Launch Status
Success

Mission

Foton 11 & Mirka

  • Type: Planetary Science
  • Orbit: Low Earth Orbit

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.

Location

43/3 (43L)

Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation

43/3 (43L) has witnessed the launch of 229 rockets, including 229 orbital launch attempts. While Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation, has been the site for 1672 rocket launches.

Plesetsk Cosmodrome is a Russian spaceport located in Mirny, Arkhangelsk Oblast, about 800 km north of Moscow and approximately 200 km south of Arkhangelsk. Originally developed as an ICBM site for the R-7 missile, it also served for numerous satellite launches using the R-7 and other rockets. Its high latitude makes it useful only for certain types of launches, especially the Molniya orbits, so for much of the site's history it functioned as a secondary location, with most orbital launches taking place from Baikonur, in the Kazakh SSR. With the end of the Soviet Union, Baikonur became a foreign territory, and Kazakhstan charged $115 million usage fees annually. Consequently, Plesetsk has seen considerably more activity since the 2000s.

Rocket

Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS) Soyuz U

Learn more about the Soyuz U

Agency

Strategic Rocket Forces

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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