Soyuz-2
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Soyuz2 (, GRAU index: 14A14) is a Russian expendable medium-lift launch vehicle and the seventh major iteration of the Soyuz rocket family. Compared to its predecessors, Soyuz-2 features significant upgrades, including improved engines and a digital flight control system that enables launches from fixed platforms and supports larger payload fairings.
Key facts
- Rocket.name
- Soyuz2 (2.1a / 2.1b)
- Rocket.image
- Soyuz 2.1b GLONASS-K2 13L launch 01.jpg
- Rocket.caption
- A Soyuz2.1b rocket launches carrying a GLONASS-K2 satellite to orbit
- Rocket.function
- Medium-lift launch vehicle
- Rocket.manufacturer
- RKTs Progress
- Rocket.country origin
- Russia
- Rocket.cpl
- (2018, 2.1b without fourth stage)
- Rocket.stages
- 3 or 4
- Rocket.family
- R-7 (Soyuz)
- Rocket.derived_from
- Soyuz-FG
- Rocket.derivatives
- Soyuz-STSoyuz-2.1v
- Rocket.status
- Active
- Rocket.launches
- 162 (A: 79, B: 83)
- Rocket.success
- 157 (A: 76, B: 81)
- Rocket.fail
- 4 (A: 2, B: 2)
- Rocket.partial
- 1 (A: 1, B: 0)
- Rocket.upright
- 1.25
- Rocket/Payload.location
- TLI
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Wikidata facts
- Mass
- 312000
- Official website
- en.samspace.ru/products/launch_vehicles/rn_soyuz_2
- Image
- Soyuz 2 metop.jpg
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- Soyuz-2
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Article
18 sectionsContents
- History
- Variants
- Soyuz-2.1a
- Soyuz-2.1b
- Vostochny modifications
- Notable missions
- Suborbital test flight
- Maiden launch
- First crewed mission
- ''Naphthyl'' fuel
- Launch statistics
- Launch sites
- List of launches
- Planned launches
- See also
- Notes
- References
- External links
Soyuz2 (, GRAU index: 14A14) is a Russian expendable medium-lift launch vehicle and the seventh major iteration of the Soyuz rocket family. Compared to its predecessors, Soyuz-2 features significant upgrades, including improved engines and a digital flight control system that enables launches from fixed platforms and supports larger payload fairings.
Developed by the Progress Rocket Space Centre (RKTs Progress) in Samara, Soyuz-2 is used to place payloads into low Earth orbit in standard configuration but can also support missions to higher orbits using an additional upper stage, most commonly the Fregat, though the smaller Volga is available as a less expensive option. Since its introduction in 2004, Soyuz-2 has gradually replaced earlier Soyuz variants and is launched from the facilities of its R-7 derived predecessors: Site 31/6 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan and Sites 43/3 and 43/4 at the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northwestern Russia, and, since 2016, Site 1S at the Vostochny Cosmodrome in eastern Russia.