Launched Spektr-R (RadioAstron), a Russian space radio telescope with a 10-meter dish, into a highly elliptical orbit aboard a Zenit-3F from Baikonur. Combined with ground observatories, it formed space-VLBI baselines up to 350,000 km long to study galactic nuclei and other radio sources.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Elliptical
- Elliptical orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 4 T
- Flight
- 2nd
- of 4 Zenit-3F flights
- Date and time
- 18 July 2011, 02:31 UTC
- Rocket
- Zenit-3F
- Builder
- Yuzhmash
- Launch site
- 45/1, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Astrophysics
- International designator
- 2011-037
- Launches in 2011
- 38th of 84
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