Maiden test flight of the Strela launch vehicle, a converted UR-100NUTTH (SS-19) ballistic missile, from Baikonur. It carried a Gruzomaket mock-up payload standing in for the future Kondor-E radar satellite into a roughly 465 x 473 km orbit.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 978 kg
- Flight
- 1st
- of 3 Strela flights
- Date and time
- 5 December 2003, 06:00 UTC
- Rocket
- Strela
- Builder
- Khrunichev
- Launch site
- 175/59, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Test Flight
- International designator
- 2003-055
- Launches in 2003
- 57th of 63
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