NSSDCA/COSPAR ID: 1998-043F
OHB System and the German Space Agency (DARA) have undertaken a program of small communications satellites named SAFIR (Satellite for Information Relay). SAFIR 2 was launched along with RESURS-O aboard a Zenit rocket from the Baikonur cosmodrome. It had a mass of 55 kg in the form of a 0.45-m cube and a gravity-gradient stabilization system. Communications was in the 400 MHz band.
Launch Date: 1998-07-10
Launch Vehicle: Zenit 2
Launch Site: Tyuratam (Baikonur Cosmodrome), Kazakhstan
Mass: 55 kg
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