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Dec. 24, 2019
Proton-M carrying Elektro-L No.3 liftoff
A Proton-M launch vehicle, with a DM-03 upper stage, launched the Elektro-L No.3 meteorological satellite from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, on 24 December 2019, at 12:03 UTC (18:03 local time). All stages of flight of the launch vehicle were carried out as normal.
Proton-M launches Elektro-L No.3
Elektro-L No.3 (Электро-Л №3) is the third hydrometeorological geostationary satellite developed by NPO Lavochkin (Russia) and launched by Roscosmos.
Elektro-L No.3
In accordance with the flight sequence diagram, after 585 seconds after launch, the head unit (a bunch of the upper stage and the satellite) was separated from the third stage of the launch vehicle. After that, the DM-03 upper stage continued to launch a new meteorological satellite into the target orbit. The total duration of the launch from the launch of the launch vehicle to the separation of the spacecraft will be 6 hours 37 minutes.
The Proton-M launch vehicle is mass-produced at the MV Center. Khrunicheva (part of Roscosmos State Corporation) and has been used to derive payloads on given orbits and take-off trajectories as part of federal and commercial programs since 2001. Over the years of operation, the Proton-M rocket has undergone four phases of deep modernization, which has significantly improved its energy-mass and environmental characteristics while removing heavy single and paired payloads.
ROSCOSMOS Press Release: https://www.roscosmos.ru/27894/
Images, Video, Text, Credits: ROSCOSMOS/ЦЭНКИ/SciNews/Orbiter.ch Aerospace/Roland Berga.
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