Soyuz-U-PVB launched the Kosmos-2450 optical reconnaissance satellite, a Kobalt-M type film-return spy satellite, from Plesetsk Cosmodrome for the Russian military, part of a legacy imaging program later phased out in favor of digital successors.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 6.6 T (est.)
- Flight
- 69th
- of 70 Soyuz-U-PVB flights
- Date and time
- 29 April 2009, 16:58 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz-U-PVB
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 16/2, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 2009-022
- Launches in 2009
- 24th of 78
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