Soyuz Launch From Vostochny Delivers Aist-2T Pair and 50 Small Satellites to Orbit

Overview

• Roscosmos said the Fregat upper stage separated from the third stage and completed insertion of all payloads into their designated orbits.
• Liftoff at 16:18 Moscow time (13:18 GMT) was followed by roughly an hour to place Aist-2T No. 1 and No. 2 into orbit before deploying the rideshare payloads.
• The Aist-2T mission targets stereoscopic Earth imaging for digital terrain models and emergency monitoring, with a planned service life of at least five years.
• The secondary manifest included Lobachevsky, Scorpion, Polytech Univers-6, Khors No. 5, Vladivostok-2, and MorSat-1.
• Universities contributed CubeSats under the Universat program for climate and space-weather studies, and a hosted RUVDS platform was released using OKB Pyatoye Pokolenie’s Mule 4T dispenser.