Strela-3 125 to 127 & Gonets 7 to 9
Tsiklon-3
Strategic Rocket Forces
Mission
Strela-3 125 to 127 & Gonets 7 to 9
Type: Communications
Gonets- satellite were the civilian derivate of the military Strela-3 satellite system. The Gonets system was offered to support international health organizations to meet their global communications needs for the transfer of medical data and records to remote sites. Strela-3 was second generation of strategic store-dump military communications satellite. Development of this generation to replace the first generation Strela-1M and Strela-2M satellites began in 1973.
Location
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Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
1659 rockets have launched from Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation.
Rocket
Tsiklon-3 – Yuzhnoye Design Bureau
- Family: Tsiklon
- Length: 39.27 m
- Diameter: 3 m
- Launch Mass: 189 T
- Low Earth Orbit Capacity: 4100 kg
The Tsiklon-3 was manufactured by Yuzhnoye Design Bureau with the first launch on 1977-06-24. Tsiklon-3 has 115 successful launches and 7 failed launches with a total of 122 launches. The Tsyklon-3 was a Soviet, and subsequently Ukrainian orbital carrier rocket. A derivative of the R-36 ICBM, and a member of the Tsyklon family, it made its maiden flight on 24 June 1977, and was retired on 30 January 2009.
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).
