Soyuz-2.1a made its operational debut carrying EUMETSAT's MetOp-A polar-orbiting weather satellite from Baikonur, giving Europe its first dedicated polar meteorological platform and inaugurating the upgraded Soyuz-2 variant.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- PO
- Polar orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 4.1 T
- Flight
- 1st
- of 3 Soyuz 2.1a Fregat flights
- Date and time
- 19 October 2006, 16:28 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz 2.1a Fregat
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 31/6, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 2006-044
- Launches in 2006
- 47th of 66
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