A Rokot/Briz-KM launched the twin NASA-DLR GRACE satellites from Plesetsk into polar orbit, where they mapped fine variations in Earth's gravity field by precisely tracking the changing distance between the two spacecraft.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 950 kg
- Flight
- 2nd
- of 31 Rokot/Briz-KM flights
- Date and time
- 17 March 2002, 09:21 UTC
- Rocket
- Rokot/Briz-KM
- Builder
- Khrunichev
- Launch site
- 133/3 (133L), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 2002-012
- Launches in 2002
- 12th of 65
See it in orbit
Space Atlas shows the satellites and rocket stages from this launch in 3D.
Object pages on Space Atlas: GRACE
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