SRET
SRET ( Satellite des Recherches et d'Etudes Technologiques ) or MAS ( Maly Awtomatitscheski Sputnik ) was a French test satellite type .
Missions
SRET 1 (MAS 1)
SRET 1 was launched on April 4, 1972 together with the communications satellite Molnija-1 20 on a Molnija launcher from the Plesetsk cosmodrome . This launch was the first French satellite to be launched with a Soviet launch vehicle.
SRET 2 (MAS 2)
SRET 2 started on June 5, 1975 together with the communications satellite Molnija-1 30, also with a Molnija launcher in Plesetsk.
Individual evidence
- ^ Gunter Krebs: SRET 1 (MAS 1). In: Gunter's Space Page. April 3, 2014, accessed August 23, 2014 .
- ^ Gunter Krebs: SRET 2 (MAS 2). In: Gunter's Space Page. April 3, 2014, accessed August 23, 2014 .