Globalstar 29,34,39,61

Soyuz-U-PVB deployed two Globalstar mobile-communications satellites from Baikonur, the sixth and final Starsem Soyuz/Ikar flight of the year that completed a 24-satellite Globalstar deployment campaign begun in September 1999.

Outcome

Success

Orbit

LEO

Low Earth orbit

Payload to orbit

1.8 T

Flight

53rd

of 70 Soyuz-U-PVB flights

Date and time

22 November 1999, 16:20 UTC

Rocket

Soyuz-U-PVB

Builder

Progress RSC

Launch site

1/5, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan

Payload

Communications

International designator

1999-062

Launches in 1999

66th of 78

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