Carried the Meridian-2 communications satellite from Plesetsk, but the Fregat upper stage ran out of propellant during its second burn and stranded the spacecraft in a far lower, unusable orbit, sharply cutting its operational lifetime.
- Outcome
- Partial
- Orbit
- Elliptical
- Elliptical orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2 T (est.)
- Flight
- 3rd
- of 3 Soyuz 2.1a Fregat flights
- Date and time
- 21 May 2009, 21:53 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz 2.1a Fregat
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 43/4 (43R), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 2009-029
- Launches in 2009
- 31st of 78
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