December 25, 2025 at 2:11 PM UTC
Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
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December 25, 2025 at 2:11 PM UTC
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Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation · 62.9288, 40.4571
Note: Assignment of payloads to this launch is uncertain. The Russian Obzor-R satellite is a planned X-band radar earth observation satellite designed by TsSKB-Progress. In 2012, the development of the Arkon-2M radar satellite was stopped and instead the development of the Obzor-R was initiated. The satellite features the BRLK X-band Synthetic Aperture Radar as the imaging instrument with a ground resolution of 500 m.
Mission media
Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS) Obzor-R No.1
Full video recordSoyuz
Height
46.3 m
Diameter
2.95 m
LEO capacity
7,020 kg
Successful launches
57
Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
Plesetsk Cosmodrome is a Russian spaceport located in Mirny, Arkhangelsk Oblast, about 800 km north of Moscow and approximately 200 km south of Arkhangelsk. Originally developed as an ICBM site for the R-7 missile, it also served for numerous satellite launches using the R-7 and other rockets. Its high latitude makes it useful only for certain types of launches, especially the Molniya orbits, so for much of the site's history it functioned as a secondary location, with most orbital launches taking place from Baikonur, in the Kazakh SSR. With the end of the Soviet Union, Baikonur became a foreign territory, and Kazakhstan charged $115 million usage fees annually. Consequently, Plesetsk has seen considerably more activity since the 2000s.
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Apparently scrubbed for the day due to launch site strong winds; next attempt tomorrow.
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