Previous Spaceflight Launches
Filter by Agency, Locations or Vehicles
Show All Launches
Soyuz 2.1a/Fregat-M | Kondor-FKA No.1
Progress Rocket Space Center | RUSVostochny Cosmodrome, Siberia, Russian Federation
May 26, 2023, 9:14 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:
The Kondor-FKA is a small civilian radar Earth observation satellite designed by NPO Mashinostroyeniya as a civilian counterpart to the Kondor-E satellite. The Kondor satellite features a S-band synthetic aperture radar (SAR), which can conduct both continous swath surweys or detailed spot surveys. The swath width is 10 km. Ground resolution is 1 to 2 m in spotlight mode, 1 to 3 m in stripmap mode and 5 to 30 m in ScanSAR mode.
Sun-Synchronous Orbit
Soyuz 2.1v | Kosmos 2568 (EO MKA-4)
Progress Rocket Space Center | RUSPlesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
March 29, 2023, 7:57 p.m.
Soyuz 2.1a | Kosmos 2567 (Bars-M No. 4)
Progress Rocket Space Center | RUSPlesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
March 23, 2023, 6:40 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:
Note: Payload identity uncertain. Bars-M is the second incarnation of the Bars project, which was started in the mid 1990ies to develop a successor for the Komtea class of area surveillance satellites. The original Bars project was halted in the early 2000s. In 2007, TsSKB-Progress was contracted for Bars-M, for which reportedly the Yantar-based service module was replaced by a new developed advanced service module. The Bars-M satellites feature an electro-optical camera system called Karat, which is developed and built by the Leningrad Optical Mechanical Association (LOMO), and a dual laser altimeter instrument to deliver topographic imagery, stereo images, altimeter data and high-resolution images with a ground resolution around 1 meter.
Sun-Synchronous Orbit
Soyuz 2.1b | Kosmos 2565 (Lotos-S1 #7)
Progress Rocket Space Center | RUSPlesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
Nov. 30, 2022, 9:10 p.m.
Soyuz 2.1b/Fregat-M | Glonass-M No. 61 (Kosmos 2564)
Progress Rocket Space Center | RUSPlesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
Nov. 28, 2022, 3:17 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:
Glonass-M, also known as Uragan-M, are the second generation of Uragan satellite design used for GLONASS satellite navigation system. GLONASS is a Russian space-based navigation system comparable to the similar GPS and Galileo systems. This generation improves on accuracy, power consumption and design life. Each satellite weighs 1415 kg, is equipped with 12 L-band antennas, and has an operational lifetime of 7 years.
Medium Earth Orbit
Soyuz 2.1b/Fregat | EKS 6 (Tundra 6) (Kosmos 2563)
Progress Rocket Space Center | RUSPlesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
Nov. 2, 2022, 6:48 a.m.
Soyuz 2.1b/Fregat-M | Gonets-M33, Gonets-M34, Gonets-M35 & Skif-D
Progress Rocket Space Center | RUSVostochny Cosmodrome, Siberia, Russian Federation
Oct. 22, 2022, 7:57 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
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.
Low Earth OrbitSoyuz 2.1v/Volga | Kosmos 2561 & Kosmos 2562
Progress Rocket Space Center | RUSPlesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
Oct. 21, 2022, 7:20 p.m.
Angara 1.2 | EMKA-3 (Kosmos 2560)
Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center | RUSPlesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
Oct. 15, 2022, 7:55 p.m.
Soyuz 2.1b/Fregat | Glonass-K1 No. 17 (Kosmos 2559)
Progress Rocket Space Center | RUSPlesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
Oct. 10, 2022, 2:52 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:
Glonass-K are the third generation of satellite design for GLONASS satellite navigation system. GLONASS is a Russian space-based navigation system comparable to the similar GPS and Galileo systems. This generation improves on accuracy, power consumption and design life. Each satellite is unpressurized and weighs 935 kg, and has an operational lifetime of 10 years.
Medium Earth Orbit
