Interbol 2, Magin 5 & MuSat 1

Molniya-M launched Interball-2 (the Auroral Probe) with the Czech Magion 5 subsatellite to study the Earth's magnetosphere and auroral particle acceleration from a high-altitude polar orbit, completing the Interball science pair begun in 1995.

Outcome

Success

Orbit

LEO

Low Earth orbit

Payload to orbit

1.7 T

Flight

251st

of 272 Molniya-M 2BL flights

Date and time

29 August 1996, 05:22 UTC

Rocket

Molniya-M 2BL

Builder

Progress RSC

Launch site

43/3 (43L), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation

Payload

Planetary Science

International designator

1996-050

Launches in 1996

54th of 77

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