Meteor-M No.2-1 & rideshare payloads

Soyuz-2.1b/Fregat-M lifted off from Vostochny carrying the Meteor-M 2-1 weather satellite and 18 secondary payloads from Russia, Norway, Sweden, the US, Japan, Canada and Germany. The Fregat stage was programmed with Baikonur's launch coordinates instead of Vostochny's, sending the stack into the ocean and destroying all 19 satellites.

Outcome

Failure

Orbit

SSO

Sun-synchronous orbit

Payload to orbit

Did not reach orbit

Flight

16th

of 26 Soyuz 2.1b Fregat flights

Date and time

28 November 2017, 05:41 UTC

Rocket

Soyuz 2.1b Fregat

Builder

Progress RSC

Launch site

Cosmodrome Site 1S, Vostochny Cosmodrome, Siberia, Russian Federation

Payload

Earth Science

Launches in 2017

79th of 90