Russia plans 20 launches of Soyuz rocket in 2020
AMUR REGION, RUSSIA - DECEMBER 27, 2018: A Soyuz-2.1a rocket booster with a Fregat-M upper stage block lifts off from the Vostochny Cosmodrome to deliver Russia's Kanopus-V No 5 and No 6 remote sensing satellites and 26 foreign spacecraft to orbit. Yuri Smityuk/TASS. Sketched by the Pan Pacific Agency.
VOSTOCHNY SPACEPORT, Dec 16, 2019, TASS. Twenty launches of the Soyuz carrier rocket are planned for 2020, according to a video shared by Roscosmos Director General Dmitry Rogozin at a press conference at the Vostochny cosmodrome on Monday, TASS reported.
“Twenty launches of the Soyuz carrier rocket,” according to the video.
It was also noted in the video that the work on the construction of carriers is in full swing.
As of now 22 flight vehicles have lifted off in 2019, among them Soyuz-2 rockets of various modifications and Rokot. That number includes three manned launches and one unpiloted launch of manned spacecraft.
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