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Launching on COSMOS

The COSMOS launcher has been developed by AKO Polyot. It has an extrordinary launch record starting in 1961, with only 6 failures in more than 700 launches (>99% success rate).

Cosmos (and START) is being marketed by The United Start Corporation, jointly owned by Assured Space Access in the US, and ZAO Puskovie Uslugi of Moscow. PU in turn is jointly owned by STC Complex-MIFT and the Russian Space Agency.

Capacity

Launcher Capacity (kg) Orbit
COSMOS 1400 400km LEO


Launch history

Some of the small satellites carried as piggyback and/or main payload have been:

# date payload orbit comments
24 Jan 95 FAISAT-1
Astrid		 970x1021, 83°
5 Sep 96 Unamsat-2
23 Sep 97 FAISAT-2v
10 Dec 98 Astrid-2 978x1013km 83°
Abrixas Baikonur
28 Jun 2000 Tsinghua-1
SNAP-1		 670km SSO Plesetsk

Expected future launches

# date payload orbit comments
FAISAT constellation (4 launches)
AM-1
Jul 1999 Champ Plesetsk
mid 2001 Grace (pair of satellites) Plesetsk
 

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