Zeya

Launch Successful

Launch Details

Date: 4 Mar 1997, 02:00 am UTC

Rocket: Start-1.2 (Start)

Provider: Strategic Rocket Forces

Mission

Type: Navigation

Orbit: Low Earth Orbit

Pad: 5, Svobodny Cosmodrome, Russian Federation

Mission Description

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.