Named by the date of the launch of the Dnepr rocket Korean satellite
The carrier rocket "Dnepr" with the South Korean satellite KOMPSAT-3A will start with starting base "Clear" on March 26, said in an international space organization Kosmotras. Date of the launch of the RS-20 spacecraft "KOMPSAT-3A from Yasny scheduled for March 26, 2015 at 3: 08: 46 local time," reports the news Agency of the letter. Before in the Roscosmos told that Launches the conversion boosters "Dnipro" in the framework of the international space program, a team of stopped for a while for an indefinite period. At the end of December last year it was announced that starting the program in 2015 will begin on 22 January with the launch of foreign spacecraft "KOMPSAT-3A by means of the conversion of the Dnepr rocket from the launching area" Dombrowski ". The last launch of the carrier rocket "Dnepr" was held in November last year, then she launched into earth orbit by a few foreign spacecraft for various purposes. In June last year the missile, launched from the territory of the Orenburg region on the program " Dnipro ", into orbit a record number of satellites - 34 machine for customers from 17 countries. The conversion program " Dnipro ", developed in the 1990s at the initiative of the presidents of Russia and Ukraine, involves the application removed from combat duty ICBM SS-20 spacecraft launches. The runs are performed from the Baikonur cosmodrome and position area Jasnensky connection of the Russian strategic missile forces. The carrier rocket "Dnepr" - a three-stage, liquid. The first and the second steps are the standard steps of ICBM SS-20. Launch mass of Dnipro - 210 tons.