Launch Overview
Vehicle
Start-1.2
Agency
Strategic Rocket Forces
Site / Pad
GIK-2 / LC5
Outcome
Success
Flight
N/A
COSPAR Designator
1997-010
Mission
Zeya (Navigation)
The Mozhayets 2 (Zeya, RS 16) satellite was a Russian Military experimental communications satellite launched on 4 March 1997. Zeya was named after the Zeya River, which is very close to its launch site, Cosmodrome Svobodniy. A Start-1.2 rocket transported it into orbit. This was the first satellite launched from this new Russian launch site in far eastern Russia.
Vehicle & Provider
Rocket
Start-1.2
Provider
Strategic Rocket Forces
Agency launches
3 (1 YTD)
Site launches
1 (1 YTD)
Pad launches
1 (1 YTD)