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.
Specifications
- Thrust
- 4,150 kN
- Height
- 46.3 m
- Diameter
- 10.3 m
- Launch mass
- 313 t
- Stages
- 4
- Launch cost
- $48.5M
- LEO capacity
- 8,200 kg
- GTO capacity
- 3,250 kg
- GEO capacity
- —
- SSO capacity
- —
Vehicle specifications from Launch Library; blanks are unpublished figures.
Flight record
Counted from padside's own launch record — the same basis as the Stats page.
Launches
- Soyuz 2.1b/Fregat-M | Kosmos 2600-2608 — Success
- Soyuz 2.1b/Fregat-M | AIST-2T 01 & 02 — Success
- Soyuz 2.1b/Fregat-M | Ionosfera-M 3 & 4 — Success
- Soyuz 2.1b/Fregat-M | Kosmos 2588 — Success
- Soyuz 2.1b/Fregat-M | Glonass-K2 No. 14 (Kosmos 2584) — Success