Reflektor
Reflektor
The Reflektor experiment was delivered by the Progress-M 42 spacecraft to the space station Mir. It was built by Energia-GPI Space (EGS), a joint Company founded in 1998 by RSC Energia (Russia) and Georgian Polytechnical Intellect Ltd. (GPI, Georgia). During an EVA, two cosmonauts mounted the experiment on the Sofora mast and unfurled the Reflektor experiment, which was to test out technolgies for large lightwight antenna reflectrors. After some difficulties, the antenna was unfurled to 6.4 m × 5.2 m size and finally deployed from the Sofora mast.
| Nation: | Russia |
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| Type / Application: | Antenna reflector technology |
| Operator: | Energia-GPI Space (EGS) |
| Contractors: | Energia-GPI Space (EGS) |
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| Propulsion: | None |
| Power: | None |
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| Satellite | Date | LS | Launch Vehicle | Remarks | |
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| Reflektor | 16.07.1999 | TB | Soyuz-U | with Progress-M 42 |
