All launches
Mission brief
The mission
Demonstration Flight for Russia's new Soyuz-5 launch vehicle, with a mass simulator on board. The launch was suborbital with the simulator splashing down in the Pacific Ocean.
PayloadDemo Flight
OrbitSub
CustomerRKK Energiya
Stages3
Pad45/1, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
Flight plan
Mission timeline
14 / 14100%
The range
Where it leaves Earth
Launch site
Ground vector
Site locked
45/1
Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
Global range
- Latitude
- 45.943°N
- Longitude
- 63.653°E
Can I see this?
Distance and a plain visibility call from a place you choose. Trajectory is not modeled — night launches travel farther across the sky than daylight ones.
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Range weather
Launch commit criteria
Clear
Watch
TrackingNo active constraints
Weather rules
Clear — tracking no weather issues at this time.
- Primary concern
- No weather issues
- Rule count
- 0
- Temperature
- Not reported
- Surface wind
- Not reported
Window
11:00 AM UTC – 09:00 PM UTC
Hardware
Vehicle & provider
Reliability
Schedule history
No meaningful launch-time or status changes recorded.