Orbited Resurs-DK1, a Russian civilian Earth-imaging satellite providing 1-meter panchromatic and 2-meter color resolution imagery for disaster monitoring, agriculture, and mapping. It also carried an Italian cosmic-ray monitor and instruments to study earthquake precursors.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 6.6 T
- Flight
- 64th
- of 70 Soyuz-U-PVB flights
- Date and time
- 15 June 2006, 08:00 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz-U-PVB
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 1/5, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 2006-021
- Launches in 2006
- 22nd of 66
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