25399 - SAFIR 2

SAFIR 2 is a German microsatellite that was launched along with RESURS-O 1N4 aboard a Zenit rocket from the Baikonur cosmodrome. Initial orbital parameters were close to those of RESURS-O.

OHB System and the German Space Agency (DARA) have undertaken a program of small communications satellites named SAFIR (Satellite for Information Relay). SAFIR 2 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.

Facts in Brief

Launch Date: 1998-07-10
Launch Vehicle: Zenit 2
Launch Site: Tyuratam (Baikonur Cosmodrome), Kazakhstan
Mass: 55.0 kg