This Soyuz-U-PVB carried Dumsat, a 2,382 kg mass model of a pair of ESA Cluster II satellites, in the second test flight of the Soyuz/Fregat combination ahead of the actual Cluster II launches later that year.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Elliptical
- Elliptical orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 3.4 T
- Flight
- 2nd
- of 4 Soyuz-U/Fregat flights
- Date and time
- 20 March 2000, 18:28 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz-U/Fregat
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 31/6, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Test Flight
- International designator
- 2000-015
- Launches in 2000
- 17th of 85
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