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Irtysh (Russian: Иртыш), [2] also named Soyuz-5 (Russian: Союз-5), formerly codenamed Fenix in Russian and Sunkar (Kazakh: Сұңқар, lit. 'falcon') in Kazakh, is a planned Russian rocket that is being developed by RKTs Progress within the "Project Feniks" (Russian: Феникс, lit.
Soyuz 5 (Russian: Союз 5, Union 5) was a Soyuz mission using the Soyuz 7K-OK spacecraft launched by the Soviet Union on 15 January 1969, ...
Falcon 9 Block 5, the most prolific active orbital launch system in the world. ... Soyuz-5 (Irtysh)
Irtysh / DM-SLB: Baikonur Site 45/1: Roscosmos: Dummy satellite Roscosmos: Low Earth: Flight test First launch of Irtysh, also known as Soyuz-5. A dummy payload matching a future satellite in weight and size will be launched. Q4 (TBD) [34] Soyuz-2.1b / Fregat-M: Plesetsk Site 43: Roscosmos: Ekspress-RV1: RSCC: Highly elliptical: Communications
Soyuz (Russian: Союз, lit. 'union', GRAU index: 11A511) is a family of Soviet and later Russian expendable medium-lift launch vehicles initially developed by the OKB-1 design bureau and manufactured by the Progress Rocket Space Centre factory in Samara, Russia.
After Rus-M was ultimately canceled in 2011 after falling victim to the Great Recession, and competition with Angara, TsSKB Progress disclosed the existence of the Soyuz-5 rocket concept in 2013. [8] Soyuz-5, later renamed "Irtysh", became the successor to Rus-M after Rus-M's cancelation and Irtysh surviving Roscosmos budget cuts in 2015. [8]
Germany is working to secure a drifting Russian oil tanker, believed to be part of Moscow’s “shadow fleet” used to fund its war in Ukraine, after it lost control in the Baltic Sea.. The ...
Roscosmos uses a family of several launch rockets, the most famous of them being the R-7, commonly known as the Soyuz rocket that is capable of launching about 7.5 tons into low Earth orbit (LEO). The Proton rocket (or UR-500K) has a lift capacity of over 20 tons to LEO. Smaller rockets include Rokot and other Stations.