NEXT SPACEFLIGHT

Status

Success

Cosmos 2550

Launch Time
Fri Jun 25, 2021 19:50 UTC

Payload identity unconfirmed.

Rocket

Soyuz 2.1b
Image Credit: Roscosmos
VKS RF
Status: Active
Price: $20.0 million
Liftoff Thrust: 4,550 kN
Payload to LEO: 8,020 kg
Payload to GTO: 0 kg
Stages: 3
Strap-ons: 4
Rocket Height: 44.08 m
Fairing Diameter: 4.11 m
Fairing Height: 8.36 m

Mission Details

Pion-NKS n°1

The russian Pion-NKS (14F139) satellites are the naval component of the next generation ELINT satellite system Liana.

As a replacement for both the passive Soviet ELINT US-PM and the Soviet active radar US-A, they carry both ELINT sensors as well as an active radar.

The Liana system replaces both the Tselina-2 with Lotos satellites and the naval US-PM and US-A with Pion-NKS (14F139) spacecraft.

Payloads: 1
Total Mass: 6,500.0 kg
Sun-Synchronous Orbit

Location

Site 43/4, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia

Stats

2021

58th orbital launch attempt

Soyuz 2.1b

63rd mission
6th mission of 2021
60th successful mission
27th consecutive successful mission