(i) Launch characteristics this will include the launch vehicle, launch date and launch site.

(i) Launch characteristics this will include the launch vehicle, launch date and launch site.

The most used cosmodrome in the world the cosmodrome at Plesetsk was responsible for 60 per cent of Russian launchings and 10 per cent worldwide.

Cosmos 2333 (launched by a Zenit carrier rocket from the Baikonur launch site)

The range also has long experience of launching scientific balloons.

(launched by a Proton carrier rocket from the Baikonur launch site)

Cosmos 2322 (launched by a Zenit carrier rocket from the Baikonur launch site)

(launched by a Proton carrier rocket from the Baikonur launch site)

(launched by a Soyuz carrier rocket from the Baikonur launch site)

Cosmos 2334 (launched by a Cosmos carrier rocket from the Plesetsk launch site)

Ekspress (launched by a Proton carrier rocket from the Baikonur launch site)

(launched by a Molniya carrier rocket from the Plesetsk launch site)

Cosmos 2341 (launched by a Soyuz carrier rocket from the Plesetsk launch site)

COSMOS 2319 (launched by a Proton carrier rocket from the Baikonur launch site)

Gals (launched by a Proton carrier rocket from the Baikonur launch site)

(launched by a Tsiklon 2 carrier rocket from the Baikonur launch site)

Gorizont

Resurs F (launched by a Soyuz carrier rocket from the Plesetsk launch site) 26 September

Cosmos 2321 (launched by a Cosmos carrier rocket from the Plesetsk launch site)

The range also has long experience of launching scientific balloons.

Cosmos 2332 (launched by a Cosmos carrier rocket from the Plesetsk launch site)

Cosmos 2335 (launched by a Tsiklon 2 rocket carrier from the Baikonur launch site)

(ii) Yoshinobu Launch Complex

Esrange has the capacity to launch most types of sounding rockets.

Bion (launched by a Soyuz carrier rocket from the Plesetsk launch site)

(launched by a Start 1 carrier rocket from the Svobodny launch site)

Station team sites (4)

Cosmos 2325 Progress M 30 (launched by a Soyuz carrier rocket from the Baikonur launch site)

Cosmos 2327 (launched by a Cosmos carrier rocket from the Plesetsk launch site)

PROGNOZ M2 (launched by a Molniya carrier rocket from the Plesetsk launch site)

Launch vehicle and location Molniya carrier rocket from Baikonur launch site

D. Esrange

This space object is intended for assignments on behalf of the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation. Cosmos 2329 Cosmos 2330 Raduga

The balloon launch site is on a hill 230 metres above sea level. The control centre stands beside the launch site, where launch control and assembly of the balloon and its payload are conducted.

Location of launch site Kourou, French Guiana

Catapult platform, catapult aircraft.

Swedish sounding rocket and balloon launches have been carried out since 1962 and since 1968 from Esrange.

The Yoshinobu Launch Complex for launching the H II launch vehicle was completed in September 1991.

Six carrier rockets with a total of seven satellites were launched from the Plesetsk launch site.

Esrange Division sounding rocket and balloon launchings, scientific satellite support

Esrange Division sounding rocket and balloon launchings, scientific satellite support

The first successful MAXUS launch took place at Esrange in 1992, the second one in 1995 and the third in 1996.

Esrange is also used in various satellite projects.

Seventeen carrier rockets, which put into orbit 24 satellites, were launched from the Baikonur launch site.

Esrange is a Swedish space research and space operations range situated in northern Sweden, close to the town of Kiruna at a latitude of about 68 North.