November 8, 2004 at 5:29 PM UTC
Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
LAUNCH IN
November 8, 2004 at 5:29 PM UTC
Status: Launch Successful · Live feed refreshes every 30 seconds
43/4 (43R)
Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation · 62.9288, 40.4571
Oblik-Dummy was Zenit-8 (Oblik) spy sat, which has been in storage long beyond its service live and was converted to an instrumented dummy payload for the maiden launch of the new Soyuz-2-1a launch vehicle. The photographic equipment was removed and the vehicle was fitted with vibration and thermal sensors designed to measure the launch environment of the new launch vehicle.
Soyuz
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.
Open mapConnected program records
Same launch vehicle
July 14, 2026 at 2:47 PM UTC
April 25, 2026 at 10:21 PM UTC
March 22, 2026 at 11:59 AM UTC
December 25, 2025 at 2:11 PM UTC
November 27, 2025 at 9:27 AM UTC
September 11, 2025 at 3:54 PM UTC