Garpun

Launch Successful

Launch Details

Date: 13 Dec 2015, 12:19 am UTC

Rocket: Proton-M Briz-M (Proton / UR-500)

Provider: Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center

Type: Government/Top Secret

Orbit: Geostationary Transfer Orbit

Pad: 81/24 (81P), Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan

Garpun is a military communications satellite that will relay information between ground stations and other satellites