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Baikonur Cosmodrome Site 109

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Short name
  
LC-109/95

Status
  
Active

Last launch
  
21 June 2010

Launch pad
  
1

Total launches
  
31

Min / maxorbital inclination
  
49° – 99°

First launch
  
4 July 1974

Associatedrockets
  
R-36Dnepr

Launch site
  
Baikonur Cosmodrome Site 109

Operators
  
Strategic Missile Troops, Russian Space Forces, ISC Kosmotras

Site 109/95 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome is a missile silo built for use by the R-36 missile, which has been converted into a launch site for the Dnepr carrier rocket.

Nineteen R-36 ICBMs were launched on test flights from Site 109 between its activation in 1974, and deactivation in 1983. It was subsequently reactivated for the Dnepr programme, which uses a modified R-36 missile to place satellites into orbit. The Dnepr made its maiden flight from Site 109 on 21 April 1999. The most recent launch from Site 109 was a Dnepr, with the German TanDEM-X satellite, which was launched on 21 June 2010.

References

Baikonur Cosmodrome Site 109 Wikipedia


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