Launch FailureRussian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS)

Zenit-2 11K77.05: Globalstar 5, 7, 9 to 13, 16 to 18, 20, 21

Name: Zenit-2 11K77.05: Globalstar 5, 7, 9 to 13, 16 to 18, 20, 21
Start: 1998-09-09T20:29:00Z
End: 1998-09-09T20:29:00Z
Location: 45/1

The Globalstar global mobile communications network offers global, digital real time voice, data and fax via a constellation of 48 minisatellites. The constellation operates in a 1410 km orbit inclined at 52 degrees, and will also have 8 spares. The satellites were built by Space Systems Loral and Alenia Aerospazio in Rome, Italy.

Wednesday, 9 September 1998

Zenit-2 11K77.05

Mission Data

🇷🇺Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS)Est. 1992

Launch VehicleZenit-2 11K77.05

Vehicle FamilyZenith

Vehicle Record0 of 1 launches (0%)

Provider TypeGovernment

Agency Record333 successes / 11 failures (97%)

Success Streak68 consecutive

Mission TypeCommunications

Target OrbitLow Earth Orbit

Launch Pad45/1

Location🇰🇿 Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan KAZ

Orbital Launches This Year#56

Agency Launches This Year#9

Launches From This Pad47

Launches From This Site1,565

Status Note

Either the launch vehicle did not reach orbit, or the payload(s) failed to separate.

About Zenit-2 11K77.05

Zenit is a family of space launch vehicles designed by the Yuzhnoye Design Bureau in Dnipro, Ukraine, which was then part of the Soviet Union.

Launch Site

45/1 · 45.9435°N 63.6530°E

Launch data from Launch Library 2 by The Space Devs.