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Russian Soyuz-2.1b rocket with spacecraft lifts off from Plesetsk spaceport

Russian Aviaton » Monday August 24, 2026 09:08 MSK

ussia’s Space Troops have successfully launched a Soyuz-2.1b carrier rocket from the Plesetsk spaceport with a spacecraft in the Russian Defense Ministry’s interests, the ministry reported.

"At 5:40 a.m. Moscow time [2:40 a.m. GMT] on Monday, August 24, a combat team of the Aerospace Forces’ Space Troops successfully launched a Soyuz-2.1b medium-class carrier rocket with a space vehicle in the interests of the Defense Ministry of Russia from the Defense Ministry’s State Test Cosmodrome (the Plesetsk spaceport) in the Arkhangelsk Region," the report said.

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