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Swarm A, B, C

Overview

Destination: Low Earth Orbit
Mission: Earth Science

Low Earth Orbit 133/3 (133L) Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation

European Space Agency's mission Swarm consists of 3 satellites tasked with studying Earth's magnetic field.

Rokot/Briz-KM

Family:
Configuration: Briz-KM

Specifications
  • Minimum Stage
    1
  • Max Stage
    3
  • Length
    29.0 m
  • Diameter
    2.5 m
  • Fairing Diameter
  • Launch Mass
    107.0 T
  • Thrust
    1870.0 kN
Family
  • Name
    Rokot/Briz-KM
  • Family
  • Variant
    Briz-KM
  • Alias
  • Full Name
    Rokot/Briz-KM
Payload Capacity
  • Launch Cost
  • Low Earth Orbit
    1850.0 kg
  • Geostationary Transfer Orbit
  • Direct Geostationary
  • Sun-Synchronous Capacity

Russian Aerospace Defence Forces

Russian Aerospace Defence Forces

(VKO)

Successes: 20 Failures: 2 Pending: 0

Agency Type:

INFO WIKI

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