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23 April 2026: Russia launched an Angara-1.2 from Plesetsk with Cosmos 2615, 2616, 2617, & 2618 (68826-29). All four satellites are OO-MKA imagery satellites and join 6 others…
17 April 2026: Russia launched a Soyuz-2-1b rocket lifted off from Plesetsk with multiple spacecraft for the Ministry of Defense. Announcement of the pending launch was delayed due…
23 Mar 2026: Russia launched a Soyuz 2.1b from Plesetsk carrying 16 Rassvet 3 satellites (68360-68376) to Low Earth Orbit. Russia did release NOTAMs for the launch, however…
6 Mar 2026: Russia launched a Proton-M, with a DM-03 upper stage, with the Elektro-L No.5 (67756) meteorological satellite from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, on 12 February 2026. Elektro-L…
3 November 2025: Space Review journalist Bart Hendrickx reports that Russia is using a Chinese-built satellite—likely the Taijing-3-02 (likely 58822) launched in January 2024—to obtain high-resolution (0.5m) imagery…
21 Aug 2025: Russia launched its 5th Angara-1.2 launch vehicle from Plesetsk. On board were multiple military spacecraft which were successfully delivered to low earth orbit (LEO). Russia's…
31 Oct 2022: In another excellent Space Review article, Bart Hendrickx examined recent collaboration between Russian and Iran. Russia built and launched a remote sensing satellite for Iran…
25 Nov: Russia launched a Soyuz-2-1b rocket from Plesetsk. but did not provide any description of the payload. Cataloged as Kosmos-2572, analysts initially believed it to be a…
20 & 27 Nov 2023: The Space Review published two articles from the aforementioned Bart Hendrickx. The first article details the background and activities of Russia’s two GEO-based…
29 Jun: After spending ~88 days in vicinity of Astra 4A, Russian space operators increased the SMA of the Luch (Olymp)-2 (55841) and initiated a westward drift. Luch…
5 Dec: Russia launched a A Soyuz 2.1b with the LOTOS-S1 no8 (Cosmos 2580/62216) satellite from Plesetsk. The Lotos reconnaissance satellites form part of a wider, classified, orbital…
5 Feb: Russia launched a Soyuz 2.1v with a Volga upper (3rd) stage from Plesetsk. On board were three satellites which US Space Command has labeled Cosmos 2581,…
25 Dec: Russia launched a Soyuz-2-1b from Baikonur with the fifth and final Resurs-P earth observation satellite. Resurs-P 5's (62430) initial orbit was 287x467km with a 97.3° inclination.…
Russia's Cosmos 2577 ( still unnamed in Spacetrack.org catalog but probably 61179 ) may have experienced an on-orbit failure as the satellite appears to be no longer performing…
Russia's 16 May 2024 Soyuz mission placed a mixture of civilian and military payloads into three LEO regimes, including the newly cataloged Cosmos-2576.
Issue 97 reviews competing assessments of Cosmos-2553: U.S. officials linked it to space-based nuclear-weapon component testing, while open-source analysis argued its primary mission is likely SAR imaging.
5 Jul 2022: In his latest open source report, Bart Hendrickx presents strong evidence that a space surveillance complex in Russia’s northern Caucasus is being outfitted with a…
