Deployed the classified Kosmos 2525 military satellite from Plesetsk into sun-synchronous orbit; reportedly a remote-sensing risk-reduction demonstrator for Russia's planned MKA-V imaging satellite series.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- SSO
- Sun-synchronous orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 520 kg
- Flight
- 1st
- of 5 Soyuz 2.1v flights
- Date and time
- 29 March 2018, 17:38 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz 2.1v
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 43/4 (43R), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 2018-028
- Launches in 2018
- 28th of 114
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