Glonass-M No. 59 (Kosmos 2544)

Soyuz 2.1b/Fregat launched the Uragan-M Glonass-M navigation satellite (Kosmos 2544) from Plesetsk, returning a launch pad there to service after more than seventeen years of dormancy.

Outcome

Success

Orbit

MEO

Medium Earth orbit

Payload to orbit

1.5 T

Flight

6th

of 36 Soyuz 2.1b Fregat-M flights

Date and time

11 December 2019, 08:54 UTC

Rocket

Soyuz 2.1b Fregat-M

Builder

Progress RSC

Launch site

43/3 (43L), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation

Payload

Navigation

International designator

2019-088

Launches in 2019

93rd of 102

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