6 x Globalstar-2

Launched six second-generation Globalstar communications satellites (M073-M077 and M079) from Baikonur. The Fregat upper stage ran out of propellant during its second burn, leaving one of the six satellites stranded in a lower, unusable orbit.

Outcome

Success

Orbit

LEO

Low Earth orbit

Payload to orbit

4.3 T

Flight

1st

of 20 Soyuz 2.1a Fregat-M flights

Date and time

19 October 2010, 17:10 UTC

Rocket

Soyuz 2.1a Fregat-M

Builder

Progress RSC

Launch site

31/6, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan

Payload

Communications

International designator

2010-054

Launches in 2010

56th of 74

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