Launched EUMETSAT's MetOp-B polar-orbiting weather satellite from Baikonur into a sun-synchronous orbit, extending Europe's operational meteorological satellite system alongside MetOp-A.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- SSO
- Sun-synchronous orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 4.1 T
- Flight
- 6th
- of 20 Soyuz 2.1a Fregat-M flights
- Date and time
- 17 September 2012, 16:28 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz 2.1a Fregat-M
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 31/6, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 2012-049
- Launches in 2012
- 51st of 78
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