Soyuz-FG/Fregat launched Europe's GIOVE-B navigation test satellite from Baikonur for the Galileo program. It carried a passive hydrogen maser atomic clock, the most precise ever flown for satellite navigation, to validate technology ahead of the full constellation.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- MEO
- Medium Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 530 kg
- Flight
- 9th
- of 10 Soyuz-FG Fregat flights
- Date and time
- 26 April 2008, 22:16 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz-FG Fregat
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 31/6, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Navigation
- International designator
- 2008-020
- Launches in 2008
- 20th of 69
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