Gonets M-21, Gonets M-22, Gonets M-23, Kosmos 2504

A Rokot/Briz-KM booster from Plesetsk placed three Gonets-M store-and-forward communications satellites (Nos. 21L-23L) into orbit along with the smallsat Kosmos 2504, completing deployment of Russia's 12-satellite Gonets-D1M messaging constellation.

Outcome

Success

Orbit

LEO

Low Earth orbit

Payload to orbit

775 kg (est.)

Flight

23rd

of 31 Rokot/Briz-KM flights

Date and time

31 March 2015, 13:47 UTC

Rocket

Rokot/Briz-KM

Builder

Khrunichev

Launch site

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

Payload

Communications

International designator

2015-020

Launches in 2015

21st of 87

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