Launch Overview
Vehicle
Zenit-3SLBF
Agency
Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS)
Site / Pad
GIK-5 / LC45/1
Outcome
Success
Flight
SLB80.3/1-2002
COSPAR Designator
2011-037
Mission
Spektr-R (RadioAstron) (Astrophysics)
The RadioAstron is an international space Very Long Baseline Interferometry project led by the Astro Space Center of Lebedev Physical Institute in Moscow, Russia. The aim of the mission is to use the Spektr-R space telescope to conduct interferometer observations in conjunction with the global ground radio telescope network in order to obtain images, coordinates, motions and evolution of angular structure of different radio emitting objects in the Universe with the extraordinary high angular resolution.
Vehicle & Provider
Rocket
Zenit
Provider
Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS)
Agency launches
206 (7 YTD)
Site launches
1365 (10 YTD)
Pad launches
41 (2 YTD)