Launched the Foton-12 capsule from Plesetsk carrying microgravity materials-science and biology experiments, with a mass of about 6,190 kg. This was the final mission of the original Foton series before it was succeeded by the upgraded Foton-M.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 7.2 T (est.)
- Flight
- 49th
- of 70 Soyuz-U-PVB flights
- Date and time
- 9 September 1999, 18:00 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz-U-PVB
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 43/4 (43R), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Materials Science
- International designator
- 1999-048
- Launches in 1999
- 50th of 78
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