MOSCOW, December 27 The Russian Aerospace Forces launched the Soyuz launch vehicle -2.1v» with a military satellite from the Plesetsk cosmodrome, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported.
«On Wednesday, December 27, at 10:03 am, from the state test cosmodrome of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation (Plesetsk cosmodrome) in the Arkhangelsk region, combat crews of the space forces of the Aerospace Forces launched the Soyuz-2.1v light-class launch vehicle “with a spacecraft (SC) in the interests of the Russian Ministry of Defense,” the message says.
This is the 19th launch of a Russian rocket in 2023 and already the seventh from Plesetsk — the previous launch at this cosmodrome took place on December 21, when a military satellite was launched into orbit by a medium-class Soyuz-2.1b launch vehicle.