Launched Okean-O, a joint Ukrainian-Russian oceanographic satellite and first of a new, larger Okean generation, from Baikonur. Equipped with side-looking radar and visible/infrared scanners, it monitored ocean salinity, wave conditions, and sea ice.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- PO
- Polar orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 6.3 T
- Flight
- 31st
- of 35 Zenit-2 flights
- Date and time
- 17 July 1999, 05:38 UTC
- Rocket
- Zenit-2
- Builder
- Yuzhmash
- Launch site
- 45/1, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 1999-039
- Launches in 1999
- 41st of 78
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