Soyuz 5 • Test Flight

Soyuz 5 • Test Flight

A Roscosmos Soyuz 5 (Sunkar) rocket will lift off from Baikonur Cosmodrome on its first suborbital? test flight. It will carry a mass-size evaluation model (GMM, Gruzovo-Masovoy Maket, Габаритно-массовый макет) instead of a payload. The Soyuz 5 or Sunkar rocket (Союз 5, aka Irtysh, formerly codenamed Fenix) is intended as a replacement for the Zenit 2 launcher and equipped with an RD-171MV engine on the first stage and two RD-0124MS engines on the second stage, with both stages using keroLOX as propellant. - Delayed from 2024, Dec. 24 and Mar. 31. Moved forward from Apr. 12. Delayed from Mar. 27, 29 and Apr. 2.

📍 Pad 45/1 - Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kasachstan

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