Launched from Plesetsk carrying Cosmos-2420, a Kobalt-M film-return optical reconnaissance satellite for the Russian military, into a low elliptical orbit for high-resolution imaging.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 6.9 T (est.)
- Flight
- 63rd
- of 70 Soyuz-U-PVB flights
- Date and time
- 3 May 2006, 17:38 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz-U-PVB
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 16/2, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 2006-017
- Launches in 2006
- 18th of 66
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