Globalstar 19,42,44,45

Ikar upper stage deployed four Globalstar mobile-communications satellites, including Globalstar M019, into a parking orbit before the satellites used their own thrusters to reach the operational 1,410 km constellation shell.

Outcome

Success

Orbit

LEO

Low Earth orbit

Payload to orbit

1.8 T

Flight

47th

of 70 Soyuz-U-PVB flights

Date and time

15 April 1999, 00:46 UTC

Rocket

Soyuz-U-PVB

Builder

Progress RSC

Launch site

1/5, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan

Payload

Communications

International designator

1999-019

Launches in 1999

19th of 78

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