Soyuz-FG/Fregat launched the AMOS-2 Israeli communications satellite from Baikonur into geostationary transfer orbit alongside its predecessor AMOS-1, marking the first-ever Soyuz/R7 flight to GTO.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.4 T
- Flight
- 2nd
- of 10 Soyuz-FG Fregat flights
- Date and time
- 27 December 2003, 21:30 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz-FG Fregat
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 31/6, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 2003-059
- Launches in 2003
- 61st of 63
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