Globalstar 22,37,41,46

Deployed four Globalstar mobile-communications satellites via the Ikar upper stage, one of several Soyuz/Ikar missions in 1999 that built out the Globalstar low Earth orbit constellation.

Outcome

Success

Orbit

LEO

Low Earth orbit

Payload to orbit

1.8 T

Flight

46th

of 70 Soyuz-U-PVB flights

Date and time

15 March 1999, 03:06 UTC

Rocket

Soyuz-U-PVB

Builder

Progress RSC

Launch site

1/5, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan

Payload

Communications

International designator

1999-012

Launches in 1999

12th of 78

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