Soyuz U/Fregat

Status

Success

Dumsat

Launch Time
Mon Mar 20, 2000 18:28 UTC

Flight ST-08.

Rocket

Soyuz U/Fregat

Starsem

Status: Retired

Price: $28.0 million

Liftoff Thrust: 4,456 kN

Payload to LEO: 6,860 kg

Payload to GTO: 1,400 kg

Stages: 4

Strap-ons: 4

Rocket Height: 43.1 m

Fairing Diameter: 3.0 m

Fairing Height: 7.7 m

Details

Mission Details

Dumsat

The payload consisted of the Dumsat payload, with a mass of 2382kg and supplied by the French company Aérospatiale Matra Lanceurs. Its purpose was to simulate the launch of a pair of Cluster 2 satellites.

Payloads: 1

Total Mass: 2,382.0 kg

Low Earth Orbit

Location

Site 31/6, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan

Wiki

Stats

2000

17th orbital launch attempt

Soyuz U

767th mission

3rd mission of 2000

746th successful mission

37th consecutive successful mission