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IPM [Igor Marinin]
The IPM is a vehicle evaluation payload for the maiden Angara-A5 Briz-M launch, representing a mass model of a geostationary satellite.
The dummy payload was placed into a near geostationary orbit by the Briz-M upper stage, to which it stayed intentionally attached. After some hours, two burns of the Briz-M stage's auxiliary engines moved IPM to a graveyard orbit a few hundred km above GEO.
A second dummy payload was flown on the second Angara-A5 Briz-M.
| Nation: | Russia |
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| Type / Application: | Vehicle Evaluation |
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| Configuration: | Cylindrical dummy mass attached to Briz-M stage |
| Propulsion: | None |
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| Mass: | 2042 kg (without Briz-M) |
| Orbit: |
| Satellite | COSPAR | Date | LS | Launch Vehicle | Remarks | |
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| IPM (GVM 5A4PP №85501) | 2014-085A | 23.12.2014 | Pl LC-35/1 | Angara-A5 Briz-M | ||
| IPM 2 ? | 2020-097A | 14.12.2020 | Pl LC-35/1 | Angara-A5 Briz-M |
Launch Sites:
- Pl = Plesetsk (NIIP-53, GIK-1, GNIIP), Russia
References:
- Novosti Kosmonavtiki: Igor Marinin's Angara-A5 photo gallery
