A Soyuz-U-PVB launched the Kosmos-2399 photoreconnaissance satellite, an Orlets-1 (Don)-type spacecraft, from Baikonur for the Russian military; it operated in low Earth orbit before its mission concluded in December 2003.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 7.7 T (est.)
- Flight
- 59th
- of 70 Soyuz-U-PVB flights
- Date and time
- 12 August 2003, 14:20 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz-U-PVB
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 31/6, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 2003-035
- Launches in 2003
- 35th of 63
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