Maiden flight of the Rokot/Briz-KM launch vehicle from Plesetsk carried the SimSat-1 and SimSat-2 mass simulators, dummy payloads used to validate the Iridium dispenser and the new Briz-KM upper stage.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.3 T
- Flight
- 1st
- of 31 Rokot/Briz-KM flights
- Date and time
- 16 May 2000, 08:27 UTC
- Rocket
- Rokot/Briz-KM
- Builder
- Khrunichev
- Launch site
- 133/3 (133L), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Test Flight
- International designator
- 2000-026
- Launches in 2000
- 28th of 85
See it in orbit
Space Atlas shows the satellites and rocket stages from this launch in 3D.
View satellites in Space Atlas