Gonets-M27, Gonets-M28, Gonets-M29 & others

Soyuz 2.1b/Fregat launched from Plesetsk carrying a batch of Gonets-M store-and-forward communications satellites, marking the first time 22 satellites were deployed on a single launch from that Russian cosmodrome.

Outcome

Success

Orbit

LEO

Low Earth orbit

Payload to orbit

932 kg

Flight

10th

of 36 Soyuz 2.1b Fregat-M flights

Date and time

28 September 2020, 11:20 UTC

Rocket

Soyuz 2.1b Fregat-M

Builder

Progress RSC

Launch site

43/4 (43R), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation

Payload

Communications

International designator

2020-068

Launches in 2020

76th of 114

See it in orbit

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