A converted Dnepr ICBM launched Germany's TanDEM-X radar satellite from Baikonur. Flying in close formation with its twin TerraSAR-X, it produced a global high-resolution digital elevation model of Earth's surface.
- Outcome
- Success
- Payload to orbit
- 1.4 T
- Flight
- 16th
- of 22 Dnepr 1 flights
- Date and time
- 21 June 2010, 02:14 UTC
- Rocket
- Dnepr 1
- Builder
- Yuzhmash
- Launch site
- 109/95, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Unknown
- International designator
- 2010-030
- Launches in 2010
- 32nd of 74
See it in orbit
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Object pages on Space Atlas: TanDEM-X
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