Maiden flight of the Dnepr rocket, a converted R-36M2 ICBM launched from a Baikonur silo, successfully placing Surrey Satellite Technology's UoSAT-12 technology-demonstration minisatellite into a roughly 650 km orbit.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 375 kg
- Flight
- 1st
- of 22 Dnepr 1 flights
- Date and time
- 21 April 1999, 04:59 UTC
- Rocket
- Dnepr 1
- Builder
- Yuzhmash
- Launch site
- 109/95, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 1999-021
- Launches in 1999
- 21st of 78
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