🚀State space corporation ROSCOSMOS, Soyuz-2.1a launch vehicle successfully lifted off from VOSTOCHNY Cosmodrome.
The launch mission is to deliver 2 Earth observation Kanopus-V satellites (№3 and №4) and 9 smallsats piggybacked under the federal and commercial contracts of Glavkosmos to their target orbits.
According the flight program, the first three stages of Soyuz-2.1b have taken the ascent unit into low orbit just short of eight minutes and forty-eight seconds after liftoff. From this point in the mission, the Fregat upper stage performs planned mission maneuvers to advance the satellites to their planned orbits.
Separation of the Kanopus-V satellites is scheduled to occur approximately 1 hour after lift-off.