Launch Overview
Vehicle
Kosmos 11K65M
Agency
Soviet Space Program
Site / Pad
NIIP-53 / LC133/3
Outcome
Success
Flight
53744-158
COSPAR Designator
1991-006
Mission
Informator-1 (Communications)
Informator 1 was a prototype communications satellite for the Koskon (Space Conversion) Global Space Communication System to collect and transmit data from several scientific stations with an additional radio amateur hosted payload. It was launched on 29 January 1991 from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome by a Kosmos-3M launch vehicle.
Vehicle & Provider
Rocket
Kosmos-3M (11K65M)
Provider
Soviet Space Program
Agency launches
2399 (4 YTD)
Site launches
1345 (2 YTD)
Pad launches
113 (1 YTD)