Globalstar 23,36,38,40

Deployed the Globalstar FM36 mobile-communications satellite via the Ikar upper stage; the mission was the first commercial Soyuz launch and the first conducted by the Starsem venture.

Outcome

Success

Orbit

LEO

Low Earth orbit

Payload to orbit

1.8 T

Flight

45th

of 70 Soyuz-U-PVB flights

Date and time

9 February 1999, 03:53 UTC

Rocket

Soyuz-U-PVB

Builder

Progress RSC

Launch site

1/5, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan

Payload

Communications

International designator

1999-004

Launches in 1999

4th of 78

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