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Rimsat G1

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Launch Details

Date: 18 Nov 1993, 01:54 pm UTC

Rocket: Proton (Proton / UR-500)

Provider: Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center

Mission

Type: Communications

Orbit: Geostationary Orbit

Pad: 81/23 (81L), Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan

Mission Description

The geostationary Gorizont satellites are part of the Russian YeSSS Unified Satellite Communication System. These satellites provided civilian and military telephone, telegraph, and facsimile communications services, in addition to relaying TV and radio broadcasts. Gorizont also supported maritime and international communications from 1988 as an element of the Okean system operating at 1.5 to 1.6 GHz. The Gorizont system occupies 10 position on the geostationary orbit.