Soyuz

In-active

Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation (MOD_RUS)

March 29, 2018

Description

Specifications
  • Stages
    2
  • Length
    44.0 m
  • Diameter
    3.0 m
  • Fairing Diameter
  • Launch Mass
    158.0 T
  • Thrust
Family
  • Name
    Soyuz
  • Family
  • Variant
    2.1v
  • Alias
  • Full Name
    Soyuz 2.1v
Payload Capacity
  • Launch Cost
  • Low Earth Orbit
    2850.0 kg
  • Geostationary Transfer Orbit
  • Direct Geostationary
  • Sun-Synchronous Capacity

Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation

Government
Minister: Gen. Sergey Shoygu
MOD_RUS 1717

The Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation is the governing body of the Russian Armed Forces.

Soyuz 2.1v | Kosmos 2575

Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation | Russia
Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
Feb. 9, 2024, 7:03 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Note: Payload identity and Cosmos series numbering uncertain. Russian military payload of unknown purposes.

Sun-Synchronous Orbit
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Soyuz 2.1v | Kosmos 2574

Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation | Russia
Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
Dec. 27, 2023, 7:03 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Note: Payload identity and Cosmos series numbering uncertain. Russian military satellite of unknown purposes.

Sun-Synchronous Orbit
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Soyuz 2.1v | Razbeg 1 (Kosmos 2551)

Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation | Russia
Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
Sept. 9, 2021, 7:59 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

The Russian Razbeg 1 is small military satellite optical reconnaissance satellite. It was built by NPP VNIIEM. It is likely the same satellite identified in earlier reports as Zvesda. The 250 kg satellite was reportedly inspired by the US American commercial Earth imaging satellites of the SkySat 1 series. It features a camera built by the Belarusian company OAO Peleng with a maximum ground resolution of 0.9 meters in panchromatic mode.

Sun-Synchronous Orbit
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Soyuz 2.1v | VNIIEM EMKA (Kosmos 2525)

Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation | Russia
Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
March 29, 2018, 5:38 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

The payload for the Soyuz-2-1v launch is a small reconnaissance satellite developed by VNIIEM and known by the acronym EMKA ("Experimental Small Space Apparatus"). Launch was originally scheduled for October and then slipped to November, December and eventually January due to technical problems with the payload.

Sun-Synchronous Orbit
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Falcon 9
Success
6 days, 14 hours ago
Starlink Group 6-88
Space Launch Complex 40 - Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA

A batch of 29 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.


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CSG-3
Space Launch Complex 4E - Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA

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Long March 7A
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Shijian 29 A-B
201 - Wenchang Space Launch Site, People's Republic of China

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Long March 4B
Success
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Tianhui 7
Launch Area 94 (SLS-2 / 603) - Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China

A satellite officially described as for cartography purposes, details TBD.


Soyuz 2.1b/Fregat-M
Success
1 week, 6 days ago
AIST-2T 01 & 02
Cosmodrome Site 1S - Vostochny Cosmodrome, Siberia, Russian Federation

A pair of Russian optical Earth observation satellites built by the Progress Rocket Space Centre for obtaining stereo images of the Earth's surface, …