35868 - TATIANA 2

TATIANA 2, a Russian education and technology demonstration microsatellite, was launched as a secondary payload on a Soyuz 2-1b rocket from Baikonur on 2009 September 17 at 15:55 UT. The 98-kg satellite has UV and visual (red) photomultipliers, a scintillation detector and a spectrometer to study high-energy transient events in Earth's atmosphere.

Facts in Brief

Launch Date: 2009-09-17
Launch Vehicle: Soyuz-2.1b
Launch Site: Tyuratam (Baikonur Cosmodrome), Kazakhstan