5 February 2022, 07:00 UTC
Neitron (Kosmos 2553)
A Soyuz 2.1a/Fregat-M launched from Plesetsk placed the classified Kosmos 2553 military satellite, reportedly a next-generation Neitron-type intelligence spacecraft, into an unusually high orbit for the Russian Ministry of Defense.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2 T (est.)
- Flight
- 16th
- of 20 Soyuz 2.1a Fregat-M flights
- Date and time
- 5 February 2022, 07:00 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz 2.1a Fregat-M
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 43/4 (43R), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 2022-011
- Launches in 2022
- 11th of 186
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