Arianespace's Soyuz launched from Kourou carrying Pleiades 1B, a French/Spanish Earth-imaging satellite with 50cm resolution, joining its twin Pleiades 1A launched a year earlier to complete CNES's high-resolution optical reconnaissance constellation.
- Outcome
- Success
- Payload to orbit
- 940 kg
- Flight
- 2nd
- of 9 Soyuz STA Fregat flights
- Date and time
- 2 December 2012, 02:02 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz STA Fregat
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- Soyuz Launch Complex, Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana
- Payload
- Unknown
- International designator
- 2012-068
- Launches in 2012
- 71st of 78
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