Gonets M-14, Gonets M-16, Gonets M-17

Rokot/Briz-KM launched Gonets-M No.14 and No.17 store-and-forward communications satellites plus a military payload from Plesetsk; a Briz-KM deployment problem forced the satellites to use their own propulsion to reach the planned orbit.

Outcome

Success

Orbit

LEO

Low Earth orbit

Payload to orbit

840 kg

Flight

18th

of 31 Rokot/Briz-KM flights

Date and time

11 September 2013, 23:23 UTC

Rocket

Rokot/Briz-KM

Builder

Khrunichev

Launch site

133/3 (133L), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation

Payload

Communications

International designator

2013-048

Launches in 2013

50th of 81

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