The third rocket, Soyuz-2-1v, is designed to launch smaller payloads by replacing the Soyuz-2-1b’s second stage engine and removing the first stage altogether. Soyuz can fly from four launch ...

MOSCOW, March 9. /TASS/. Flight trials of the Soyuz-2.1v carrier rocket are planned to be completed in 2019, the Progress Rocket Space Center told TASS on Saturday. "Flight trials of the Soyuz-2 ...

MOSCOW, March 30. /TASS/. A Soyuz-2.1v light carrier rocket, launched from the Plesetsk spaceport on Wednesday night, has delivered a military satellite to orbit, the Russian Defense Ministry said ...

The Soyuz-2-1v is a smaller rocket consisting of the second and third stages of a Soyuz-2-1b – the former re-engined with an NK-33 powerplant – without the four boosters that make up the ...

Russian Aerospace Forces, part of the country's armed forces, launched a Soyuz rocket carrying a spacecraft for defence purposes, the state RIA news agency reported early on Monday, citing the Russian ...