Russia's Soyuz-2.1b From Vostochny Delivers Aist-2T Pair, 50 Smallsats to Orbit

The flight supports stereoscopic mapping goals with a broad mix of university, commercial, foreign small payloads.

Overview

Roscosmos confirmed that the Fregat stage placed Aist-2T No. 1 and No. 2 into their designated orbit after liftoff at 16:18 Moscow time from the Vostochny spaceport.
The twin Aist-2T Earth-observation satellites will provide stereoscopic imaging for digital terrain models with emergency monitoring capability and a planned service life of at least five years.
In total, 52 spacecraft were launched, including 50 small satellites that are being deployed into low Earth orbit in line with the mission plan.
The smallsat manifest features Lobachevsky, Scorpion, Polytech Univers-6, Khors No. 5, Vladivostok-2, MorSat-1, plus a RUVDS hosted platform deployed via the Mule 4T device developed by OKB Pyatoye Pokolenie (JSC OKB5).
Sputnix reported additional payloads including the QMR-KWT-2 educational satellite for a UAE customer, new CubeSats for the SITRO-AIS vessel-tracking constellation, and SITRO-TD spacecraft to test satellite-based IoT technology.