Soyuz-U-PVB launched the Russian military satellite Cosmos 2415, a Yantar-1KFT/Kometa-type cartographic reconnaissance craft, from Baikonur on a roughly six-week photo-mapping mission before its film capsule was recovered.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 6.3 T (est.)
- Flight
- 62nd
- of 70 Soyuz-U-PVB flights
- Date and time
- 2 September 2005, 09:50 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz-U-PVB
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 31/6, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 2005-034
- Launches in 2005
- 37th of 56
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