Historic first satellite launch from a submarine: a Shtil'-1 rocket, converted from an SS-N-23 ballistic missile, was fired from the submerged Delta-class submarine K-407 Novomoskovsk in the Barents Sea, placing Germany's Tubsat-N and Tubsat-N1 microsatellites into low Earth orbit.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 107 kg (est.)
- Flight
- 1st
- of 2 Shtil'-1 flights
- Date and time
- 7 July 1998, 03:15 UTC
- Rocket
- Shtil'-1
- Builder
- KBM
- Launch site
- Novomoskovsk (K-407), Sea Launch
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1998-042
- Launches in 1998
- 43rd of 82
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