Trajectory & orbital insertion
Ascent path is a representation — true ascent telemetry isn’t public.
Provider
Progress Rocket Space Center
Provider type
Commercial
Orbit
Elliptical
Mission type
Planetary Science
Launch site
Russia
Date
Wed, 02 Aug 1995 23:59:11 GMT
Orbital launch #
#4004 ever
Mission
The Interball Project is a multi-national effort that consists of four spacecraft: two main spacecraft of the Prognoz series, made in Russia, each with a small subsatellite (Magion) made in Czechoslovakia. The main objective is to study the physical mechanisms responsible for the transmission of solar wind energy to the magnetosphere, its storage there, and subsequent dissipation in the tail and auroral regions of the magnetosphere, ionosphere, and atmosphere during magnetospheric substorms.