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Tubsat-N & N1
Launch SuccessfulLaunch Details
Date: 7 July 1998, 03:15 am UTC
Rocket: Shtil'-1
Provider: Makeyev Rocket Design Bureau
Mission
Type: Communications
Orbit: Low Earth Orbit
Pad: Novomoskovsk (K-407), Sea Launch
Mission Description
TUBSAT-N and Tubsat-N1 are two nanosatellites, which were launched on the 7th of July 1998 as a satellite cluster from a submarine with a russian Shtil-1 rocket in the Barents Sea. All systems are working well and the satellites are in a excellent overall condition. The satellites were separated in orbit via telecommand. Both satellites were developed at the Technical University of Berlin and the complete project was financed by DLR.