Soyuz 2.1a/Fregat

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Progress Rocket Space Center (PRSC)

Oct. 19, 2006

Description

Specifications
  • Length
  • Diameter
  • Fairing Diameter
  • Launch Mass
  • Thrust
Family
  • Name
    Soyuz 2.1a/Fregat
  • Family
  • Variant
    Fregat
  • Alias
  • Full Name
    Soyuz 2.1a Fregat
Payload Capacity
  • Launch Cost
  • Low Earth Orbit
  • Geostationary Transfer Orbit
  • Direct Geostationary
  • Sun-Synchronous Capacity

Progress Rocket Space Center

Commercial
CEO: Dmitry Baranov
PRSC 1996

Progress Rocket Space Centre, formerly known as TsSKB-Progress, is a space science and aerospace research company which is known for manufacturing launch vehicles and satellites. Most notably, Progress Rocket Space Centre is the manufacturer of Soyuz launch vehicles.

Soyuz 2.1a/Fregat | Meridian No. 12L

Progress Rocket Space Center | Russia
Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
May 21, 2009, 9:53 p.m.
Status: Launch Failure
Mission:

Russian highly elliptic communications satellite

Elliptical Orbit
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Soyuz 2.1a/Fregat | Meridian No. 11L

Progress Rocket Space Center | Russia
Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
Dec. 24, 2006, 8:34 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Russian highly elliptic communications satellite

Elliptical Orbit
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Soyuz 2.1a/Fregat | METOP A

Progress Rocket Space Center | Russia
Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
Oct. 19, 2006, 4:28 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

European polar orbiting meteorological satellite

Polar Orbit
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