Launched the classified Kosmos 2572 military satellite for the Russian Defense Ministry from Plesetsk; independent analysts assessed it as a reconnaissance craft, possibly of the Razdan type.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- PO
- Polar orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 6.5 T (est.)
- Flight
- 17th
- of 25 Soyuz 2.1b flights
- Date and time
- 25 November 2023, 20:58 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz 2.1b
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 43/4 (43R), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 2023-182
- Launches in 2023
- 193rd of 223
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