NEXT SPACEFLIGHT

Status

Success

Cosmos 2553

Launch Time
Sat Feb 05, 2022 07:00 UTC

Rocket

Soyuz 2.1a/Fregat-M
Image Credit: Roscosmos
VKS RF
Status: Active
Price: $23.0 million
Liftoff Thrust: 4,550 kN
Payload to LEO: 7,020 kg
Payload to GTO: 2,810 kg
Stages: 4
Strap-ons: 4
Rocket Height: 46.94 m
Fairing Diameter: 4.11 m
Fairing Height: 10.2 m

Mission Details

Cosmos 2553

Cosmos 2553 is possibly the Neitron satellite, which is a Russian military reconnaissance satellite designed by NPO Mashinostroyeniya on the Kondor platform, which would be a satellite designed to carry out optical reconnaissance on the ground, but also to take precise photographs of payloads in orbit.

It might also be the Tekhnolog satellite, also based on the Kondor platform, or another undisclosed satellite.

Payloads: 1
Medium Earth Orbit

Location

Site 43/4, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia

Stats

2022

11th orbital launch attempt

Soyuz 2.1a

58th mission
1st mission of 2022
56th successful mission
36th consecutive successful mission