Launch
Russian Space Forces
Soyuz 2.1b/Fregat-M | Kosmos 2576
- Mission
- rocket
- Pad
- Agency
Mission
Kosmos 2576
Government/Top Secret
Sun-Synchronous Orbit
Russian military payload of unknown purposes. Hitchhiking Payloads: SITRO-AIS 53-56; Zorkiy-2M-4 & 6
Status
Launch Successful
The launch vehicle successfully inserted its payload(s) into the target orbit(s).
Pad
43/4 (43R)
RUS
Latitude: 62.92883
longitude: 40.457098
Map
Location
Europe/Moscow
Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
Plesetsk Cosmodrome is a Russian spaceport located in Mirny, Arkhangelsk Oblast, about 800 km north of Moscow and approximately 200 km south of Arkhangelsk. Originally developed as an ICBM site for the R-7 missile, it also served for numerous satellite launches using the R-7 and other rockets. Its high latitude makes it useful only for certain types of launches, especially the Molniya orbits, so for much of the site's history it functioned as a secondary location, with most orbital launches taking place from Baikonur, in the Kazakh SSR. With the end of the Soviet Union, Baikonur became a foreign territory, and Kazakhstan charged $115 million usage fees annually. Consequently, Plesetsk has seen considerably more activity since the 2000s.
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Rocket
Soyuz 2.1b Fregat-M
Soyuz-2, GRAU index 14A14, is the collective designation for the 21st-century version of the Russian Soyuz rocket. In its basic form, it is a three-stage carrier rocket for placing payloads into low Earth orbit. The first-stage boosters and two core stages feature uprated engines with improved injection systems, compared to the previous versions of the Soyuz. Digital flight control and telemetry systems allow the rocket to be launched from a fixed launch platform, whereas the launch platforms for earlier Soyuz rockets had to be rotated as the rocket could not perform a roll to change its heading in flight.
Family: Soyuz
Variant: Fregat-M
Details
Min stage: 4
Max stage: 4m
Length: 46.3m
Diameter: 10.3
First Flight: July 26, 2008
Total launch count: 31
Successful launches: 31
Pending launches: 4
Consecutive successful launches: 31
Low Earth Orbit (LEO) capacity: 8200kg
Launch cost: US$48500000
Geostationary Transfer Orbit (GTO) capacity: 3250kg
Manufacturer
Progress Rocket Space Center
Commercial
RUS
Progress Rocket Space Centre, formerly known as TsSKB-Progress, is a space science and aerospace research company which is known for manufacturing launch vehicles and satellites. Most notably, Progress Rocket Space Centre is the manufacturer of Soyuz launch vehicles.
1996
CEO: Dmitry Baranov
Agency
Russian Space Forces
The Russian Space Forces are a branch of the Russian Aerospace Forces, that provides aerospace warning, air sovereignty, and protection for Russia. Having been reestablished following August 1, 2015 merger between the Russian Air Force and the Russian Aerospace Defence Forces after a 2011 dissolving of the branch. The Russian Space Forces were originally formed on August 10, 1992 and the creation of the Russian Armed Forces.
RUS
Type: Government
Details
Commander: Aleksandr Golovko
1992
Total launch count: 143
Successful launches: 135
Consecutive successful launches: 55
Failed launches: 8
Pending launches: 2
