Soyuz · Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation
Soyuz U
retired
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Specifications
- Status
- retired
- Height
- 51.1 m
- Diameter
- 2.95 m
- Mass
- 313,000 kg
- Stages
- 3
- Payload to LEO
- 6,900 kg
- First flight
- 1973-05-18
- Total launches
- 714
- Success / Fail
- 694 / 20
Soyuz-U was a Soviet and later Russian expendable medium-lift launch vehicle designed by the TsSKB design bureau and constructed at the Progress factory in Samara, Russia. The U designation stands for unified, as the launch vehicle was the replacement for the Voskhod rocket and several earlier Soyuz rocket variants. The Soyuz-U is part of the larger R-7 rocket family, which evolved from the R-7 Semyorka, the first intercontinental ballistic missile.
Payloads it launched · 735
PROGRESS-MS 05
LEO
PROGRESS-MS 03
LEO
PROGRESS-M 29M
LEO
PROGRESS-M 28M
LEO
PROGRESS-M 26M
LEO
PROGRESS-M 24M
LEO
EGYPTSAT 2
LEO
PROGRESS-M 23M
LEO
PROGRESS-M 22M
LEO
PROGRESS-M 21M
LEO
PROGRESS-M 20M
LEO
PROGRESS-M 19M
LEO
PROGRESS-M 18M
LEO
PROGRESS-M 17M
LEO
PROGRESS-M 16M
LEO
COSMOS 2480
LEO
PROGRESS-M 15M
LEO
PROGRESS-M 14M
LEO
CHIBIS-M
LEO
PROGRESS-M 13M
LEO
PROGRESS-M 11M
LEO
PROGRESS-M 10M
LEO
PROGRESS-M 09M
LEO
PROGRESS-M 08M
LEO
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