The launch vehicle is steam ejected from its Transport and Launch Canister (TLC) by means of hot gases of black powder gas generator. Dnepr liftoff sequence is shown |
The joint Russian-Ukrainian company Kosmotras will go ahead with the launches of commercial and scientific satellites and spacecraft it had planned for 2015 using the Dnepr-1 rocket, including a South Korean Kompsat remote sensing satellite in mid-March.
KOMPSAT-5 - Satellite Missions On the first Dnepr launch on 22 August 2013 |
It had earlier been reported that the launch of the Dnepr-1 by Kosmotras, a Moscow-based joint Russian-Ukrainian company, had been suspended indefinitely. A Roscosmos representative had told RIA Novosti at the beginning of this month that the program had been frozen, its future potential to be determined in the near future.
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