Proton-K/DM-2 launched a trio of GLONASS-M navigation satellites (later designated Cosmos 2424, 2425 and 2426) from Baikonur, expanding Russia's GLONASS constellation to fourteen operational satellites.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- MEO
- Medium Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 5.3 T
- Flight
- 106th
- of 110 Proton K/DM-2 flights
- Date and time
- 25 December 2006, 20:18 UTC
- Rocket
- Proton K/DM-2
- Builder
- Khrunichev
- Launch site
- 81/24 (81P), Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Navigation
- International designator
- 2006-062
- Launches in 2006
- 65th of 66
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