Placed the classified Kosmos 2588 military payload into low Earth orbit for the Russian Ministry of Defence from Plesetsk; Western analysts assessed the satellite as a suspected inspector deployed into nearly the same orbital plane as a US reconnaissance satellite.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2 T (est.)
- Flight
- 32nd
- of 36 Soyuz 2.1b Fregat-M flights
- Date and time
- 23 May 2025, 08:36 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz 2.1b Fregat-M
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 43/4 (43R), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 2025-109
- Launches in 2025
- 114th of 329
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