Launched GIOVE-A, the first in-orbit test satellite for Europe's Galileo navigation system, into medium Earth orbit to secure frequency filings, broadcast the first Galileo navigation signals and test a prototype rubidium atomic clock.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- MEO
- Medium Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 600 kg
- Flight
- 5th
- of 10 Soyuz-FG Fregat flights
- Date and time
- 28 December 2005, 05:19 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz-FG Fregat
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 31/6, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Navigation
- International designator
- 2005-051
- Launches in 2005
- 55th of 56
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