Start-1 rocket launched from the Svobodny Cosmodrome carrying EarthWatch's Early Bird civilian imaging satellite, intended for high-resolution earth observation, into a roughly 480 km orbit.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 284 kg
- Flight
- 2nd
- of 5 Start-1 flights
- Date and time
- 24 December 1997, 13:32 UTC
- Rocket
- Start-1
- Builder
- MITT
- Launch site
- 5, Svobodny Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 1997-085
- Launches in 1997
- 88th of 89
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