Launched Meridian 1, the first satellite in Russia's new Meridian military communications series, from Plesetsk into a highly elliptical Molniya-type orbit to serve ships and aircraft in polar regions.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Elliptical
- Elliptical orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2 T (est.)
- Flight
- 2nd
- of 3 Soyuz 2.1a Fregat flights
- Date and time
- 24 December 2006, 08:34 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz 2.1a Fregat
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 43/4 (43R), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 2006-061
- Launches in 2006
- 64th of 66
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