Roskosmos completed one hundred successful launches of space rockets in a row
Since October 2018, the Russian corporation Roscosmos has completed one hundred successful launches of space launch vehicles in a row. Of these, 46 rockets were launched from the Baikonur cosmodrome, 36 from the Plesetsk cosmodrome, and nine successful launches each were carried out from the Vostochny cosmodrome and the space center in the French department in Guiana.
During this time, 82 launches of rockets of the Soyuz family, 11 launches of Proton-M carrier rockets, four launches of Angara rockets, and three launches of Rokot carrier rockets were carried out.
In June 2021, a record-breaking history post-Soviet Russia, the number of successful launches of space rockets. Within one month, 60 launch vehicles were launched in a row. The previous similar record was recorded between 1992 and March 1993, when 59 missiles were successfully launched.
On Thursday, February 9, the Soyuz-2.1a space launch vehicle was launched, which delivered the Progress MS-22 cargo space transport vehicle into orbit. Its first and second stages were equipped with RD-107A / RD-108A engines, which ensured the delivery of cargo with a total mass of 2,5 tons to the International Space Station.
The delivered cargo will ensure the further continuation of the manned flight mode of the station, as well as the implementation of the Russian program of scientific and applied research.
This was the first launch this year of a Soyuz-2 launch vehicle with UEC-Kuznetsov mass-produced engines. It is noted that the statistical reliability of such equipment exceeds 99,9%.
- Maxim Svetlyshev
- Roskosmos
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