Geo-IK-2 No.12L (Kosmos 2517)

Rokot/Briz-KM launched the Geo-IK-2 No.12L geodesy satellite from Plesetsk into a roughly 1,000 km polar orbit, entering service as Kosmos 2517 to refine geodetic and gravity-field models of Earth using GLONASS positioning data.

Outcome

Success

Orbit

PO

Polar orbit

Payload to orbit

900 kg (est.)

Flight

26th

of 31 Rokot/Briz-KM flights

Date and time

4 June 2016, 14:00 UTC

Rocket

Rokot/Briz-KM

Builder

Khrunichev

Launch site

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

Payload

Earth Science

International designator

2016-034

Launches in 2016

34th of 85

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