Soyuz-2.1a with a Fregat upper stage launched from Plesetsk carrying Meridian No.16 (Meridian 6), a Russian military communications satellite for the Defense Ministry placed into a highly elliptical Molniya orbit to relay traffic over northern Russia.
- Outcome
- Success
- Payload to orbit
- 2.1 T (est.)
- Flight
- 7th
- of 20 Soyuz 2.1a Fregat-M flights
- Date and time
- 14 November 2012, 11:42 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz 2.1a Fregat-M
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 43/4 (43R), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Unknown
- International designator
- 2012-063
- Launches in 2012
- 66th of 78
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