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Gonets-M33, Gonets-M34, Gonets-M35 & Skif-D
Soyuz 2.1b Fregat-M
Historical mission record
This page records Soyuz 2.1b/Fregat-M | Gonets-M33, Gonets-M34, Gonets-M35 & Skif-D and its reported outcome: Launch Successful. The date above is a historical record.
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Mission status
Launch Successful
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LAUNCH SITEVostochny Cosmodrome, Siberia, Russian Federation
Mission
Gonets-M are an upgraded version of Gonets satellites, derived from military communications system Strela-3. Gonets-M constellation is tasked with monitoring ecological and industrial objects, providing communication and data transmission services, covering also the remote areas like the Far North region. Also onboard is the Skif-D demonstration satellite for the planned Russian Sfera LEO communication satellite constellation.
- Launch vehicle
- Soyuz 2.1b Fregat-M
- Mission type
- Communications
- Destination orbit
- Low Earth Orbit
- Launch pad
- Cosmodrome Site 1S
- Provider
- Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS)
The vehicle
Published configuration and flight history.
Launch vehicle
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.
- Height
- 46.3 m
- Diameter
- 10.3 m
- Stages
- 4
- Recorded launches
- 34
- First flight
- 2008-07-26
Recorded timing
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Launch site & orbit
Vostochny Cosmodrome, Siberia, Russian Federation
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