Rokot/Briz-KM launched Iridium 97 and Iridium 98 from Plesetsk, the final pair of first-generation Iridium satellites, completing replenishment of the mobile communications constellation until Iridium NEXT launches began in 2017.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.3 T
- Flight
- 3rd
- of 31 Rokot/Briz-KM flights
- Date and time
- 20 June 2002, 09:33 UTC
- Rocket
- Rokot/Briz-KM
- Builder
- Khrunichev
- Launch site
- 133/3 (133L), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 2002-031
- Launches in 2002
- 31st of 65
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