Launched the Foton-M No.4 recoverable science capsule from Baikonur carrying microgravity and biology experiments, including geckos and tardigrades studying reproduction in space. The mission suffered a communications failure and a cancelled orbit-raising burn, and the geckos were found dead on recovery.
- Outcome
- Success
- Payload to orbit
- 6.1 T (est.)
- Flight
- 3rd
- of 57 Soyuz 2.1a flights
- Date and time
- 18 July 2014, 20:50 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz 2.1a
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 31/6, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Unknown
- International designator
- 2014-041
- Launches in 2014
- 42nd of 92
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