All pre-launch operations and the launch of a LV Soyuz-2.1V were conducted in the normal mode. The means of the ground-based automated control complex for spacecraft of the Russian orbital group controlled the launch and flight of the LV.

The launch of the Soyuz-2.1V light class launch vehicle, whose flight design tests began at the Plesetsk cosmodrome in 2013, was carried out by the combat crews of the Space Forces for the seventh time.