Soyuz launched the United Arab Emirates' Falcon Eye 2 military reconnaissance satellite from French Guiana, an Airbus/Thales-built, Pleiades-derived imager with about 70 cm resolution. It replaced the identical Falcon Eye 1, lost in a 2019 Vega launch failure.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- SSO
- Sun-synchronous orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.2 T
- Flight
- 8th
- of 9 Soyuz STA Fregat flights
- Date and time
- 2 December 2020, 01:33 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz STA Fregat
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- Soyuz Launch Complex, Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 2020-090
- Launches in 2020
- 99th of 114
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