Launched the Foton-M2 microgravity research capsule from Baikonur, the first Foton mission to fly from Kazakhstan rather than Plesetsk. It carried 39 European experiments in fluid physics, biology, materials science and exobiology during its 16-day flight.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 7.2 T (est.)
- Flight
- 61st
- of 70 Soyuz-U-PVB flights
- Date and time
- 31 May 2005, 12:00 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz-U-PVB
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 1/5, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 2005-020
- Launches in 2005
- 20th of 56
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