Spacetrack Directory Name | METEOR-M |
Alternative name | METEOR M-1 |
Orbit launches | 2009-09-17 |
Country/organisation of origin | Commonwealth of Independent States (former USSR) (CIS) |
Starting point | TYMSC (Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan) |
Categories | |
Perigee | 816 km |
Apogee | 820 km |
Meteor-M No.1, was the first of Russian Meteor-M series of polar-orbit weather satellite. It was launched on a Soyuz-2.1b rocket with a Fregat upper stage on 17 September 2009. It had a design life of 5 years. In November 2014, Russian officials announced the termination of the mission after a failure of the onboard attitude control system.
satellite METEOR-M Date of exalting 17.09.2009y.