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Soyuz-U-PVB | Globalstar 29,34,39,61
Soyuz-U-PVB
Nov 22, 4:20 PM UTC
Nov 22, 4:20 PM UTC
Mission Elapsed Time
T-00:00:00
Mission Details
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.
- Type
- Communications
- Orbit
- Low Earth Orbit (LEO)
Launch Site
- Pad
- 1/5
- Location
- Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Country
- 🇰🇿 KAZ
