A Soyuz-U carrier rocket was used to perform the launch, which took place at 16:00 UTC on 27 June 2011.

The launch successfully placed the satellite into low Earth orbit.

[4] The United States Space Command assigned it the Satellite Catalog Number 37726.

[6] This has the disadvantage that the satellite's life is dependent on how much film it can carry, and information from the satellite is not obtained until the film canister has returned to Earth and been developed.

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