Past launch
Launched successfully
Elektro-L No.5
Proton-M/Blok DM-03, flown by Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center
Launches / Proton-M/Blok DM-03
Proton-M/Blok DM-03, flown by Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center
This was Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center's 1st launch of 2026, and its 193rd in all.
Counting every operator, it was the 31st orbital launch attempt anywhere in 2026, and the first from 81/24 (81P).
Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center
Elektro-L is a series of meteorological satellites developed for the Russian Federal Space Agency by NPO Lavochkin. They are designed to capture real-time images of clouds and the Earth's underlying surface, heliogeophysical measurements, collection and translating hydrometeorological and service data.
Proton-M Blok DM-03 is a four stage Russian heavy lift launch vehicle derived from the Soviet Proton launch vehicle. It is a Proton-M with an added DM-03 Fourth stage.
Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center
Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center is a Moscow-based producer of spacecraft and space-launch systems, including the Proton and Rokot rockets and is currently developing the Angara rocket family. The Proton launch vehicle launches from Baikonur and Rokot launches from Baikonur and Plesetsk. Angara will launch from Plesetsk and Vostochny.
193 launches so far, 178 of them successful. The last 4 in a row went to plan.
It went up from 81/24 (81P) at Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan.
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