Rokot/Briz-KM launched Japan's SERVIS-1 technology-demonstration satellite from Plesetsk, testing commercial off-the-shelf electronics -- including a computer, star tracker, battery and laser gyro -- for reliability in the space radiation environment.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- SSO
- Sun-synchronous orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 980 kg
- Flight
- 5th
- of 31 Rokot/Briz-KM flights
- Date and time
- 30 October 2003, 13:43 UTC
- Rocket
- Rokot/Briz-KM
- Builder
- Khrunichev
- Launch site
- 133/3 (133L), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Test Flight
- International designator
- 2003-050
- Launches in 2003
- 51st of 63
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