Rocket
Soyuz 2.1a
Progress Rocket Space Center · Russia
The Soyuz 2.1A converted the flight control system from analog to digital, which allowed launch from fixed platforms. It also allowed big fairings and payloads. It is currently used for crewed Soyuz and Progress flights to the ISS.
- Manufacturer
- Progress Rocket Space Center
- First flight
- November 4, 2004
- Launches
- 58
- Successful
- 57
- Failed
- 1
- Success rate
- 98.3%
- Scheduled
- 1
- Height
- 46.3 m
- Diameter
- 2.95 m
- Liftoff mass
- 312 t
- Payload to low Earth orbit
- 7,020 kg
- Payload to geostationary transfer orbit
- 2,810 kg
- Reusable
- no