Yasny, Orenburg region - Russia's Dnepr launch vehicle, a converted RS-20 intercontinental ballistic missile (Satan by Western classification), which lifted off from a mini-cosmodrome in the Orenburg region, has already placed 33 small satellites belonging to Russia and other countries into near-Earth orbit.
“The rocket took off from the launching area of the Dombarovsky division of Russia’s RVSN [Strategic Rocket Forces]. It lifted 33 small satellites owned by 17 countries to their orbits,” a spokesman for the Kosmotras International Space Consortium, which handles Dnepr commercial launches, told Interfax-AVN.
Control over the satellites will soon be transferred to the customers, he said.
The rocket brought to the orbit the following satellites: KazEOSat-2 (Kazakhstan), Deimos-2 (Spain), Hodoyoshi-3, Hodoyoshi-4 (both Japan), BugSat-1 (Argentina), SaudiSat-4 (Saudi Arabia), AprizeSat-9, AprizeSat-10 (both the United States), UniSat-6, Tigrisat (both Italy), AeroCube 6 (the U.S.), ANTELSAT (Uruguay), Lemur-1, BRITE-Toronto, BRITE-Montreal (both Canada), NanosatC-Br1 (Brazil), Duchifat-1 (Israel), Perseus-M1, Perseus-M2 (Russia), QB50P1, QB50P2 (both Belgium), TabletSat-Avrora (Russia), 11 satellites Flock-1c, POPSAT-HIP 1 (Singapore), PACE (Taiwan), PolyITAN (Ukraine), DTUSat-2 (Denmark). The weight of satellites is between 1 and 15 kg.
