Trajectory & orbital insertion
Ascent path is a representation — true ascent telemetry isn’t public.
Provider
Russian Space Forces
Provider type
Government
Orbit
LEO
Mission type
Communications
Launch site
Russia
Date
Fri, 14 Feb 1997 03:47:22 GMT
Orbital launch #
#4125 ever
Mission
Gonets- satellite were the civilian derivate of the military Strela-3 satellite system. The Gonets system was offered to support international health organizations to meet their global communications needs for the transfer of medical data and records to remote sites. Strela-3 was second generation of strategic store-dump military communications satellite. Development of this generation to replace the first generation Strela-1M and Strela-2M satellites began in 1973.