The debut orbital flight of Russia's new Angara 1.2 light-lift rocket lifted off from Plesetsk carrying the small imaging satellite Kosmos 2555 for the defense ministry. The satellite failed to raise its orbit as planned and reentered less than three weeks later.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- SSO
- Sun-synchronous orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 520 kg
- Flight
- 1st
- of 7 Angara 1.2 flights
- Date and time
- 29 April 2022, 19:55 UTC
- Rocket
- Angara 1.2
- Builder
- Khrunichev
- Launch site
- 35/1, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 2022-044
- Launches in 2022
- 45th of 186
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