Informator

 1991-006A

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The Soviet Ministry of Geology's Informator satellite was used to provide communications services to field parties and disaster areas, including computer network links. Informator was built by PO Polyot using the Tsikada bus. It carried the AMSAT-Oscar 21 (RS-14) amateur radio payload built by AMSAT-U (USSR) and AMSAT-DL (Germany), which was widely used.

Informator
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
1991 Jan 29	1159:58	Launch by Kosmos 3M	PL
		T+2:10 St 1 MECO
		T+2:12 St 1 sep
		T+2:12 St 2 burn 59km
		T+2:27 Fairing sep 76km
	1208?	T+8:03 St 2 MECO 150 km	150 x 1003? x 83
		T+1:02:19 St 2 MES2
		T+1:02:30 St 2 MECO2
	1303?	T+1:02:50 St 2 sep
			104.88 960 x 1017 x 82.97
1991 Feb 3			104.78 958 x 1009 x 82.94
1991 Jun 10			104.78 957 x 1005 x 82.94