Trajectory & orbital insertion
Ascent path is a representation — true ascent telemetry isn’t public.
Provider
Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS)
Provider type
Government
Orbit
GTO
Mission type
Earth Science
Launch site
Kazakhstan
Date
Thu, 20 Jan 2011 12:29:01 GMT
Orbital launch #
#5107 ever
Mission
Elektro-L is a series of meteorological satellites developed for the Russian Federal Space Agency by NPO Lavochkin. Electro-L №1 was the first of the series and became the first Russian weather satellite that successfully operates in geostationary orbit. It is designed to capture real-time images of clouds and the Earth’s underlying surface, heliogeophysical measurements, collection and translating hydrometeorological and service data.