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Soyuz 2-1V Light Launch Vehicle

Senior Technical & Policy Analyst

04-22-11

Soyuz 2-1V

The Progress Factory of Samara, Russian Federation, for the Federal Space Agency is in the final stages of pre final assembly of the core two stages Soyuz 2-1V also called the Soyuz-1 medium lift carrier rocket. The booster has replaced the core Soyuz booster RD-108 center engine with the Kuznetsov, NK-33 engine while it retains the uprated standard second stage of the Soyuz 2-1B booster. The NK-33 is the engines used in the Soviet era N1 manned lunar landing program first stage design of the early 1970’s. The strap-on boosters have been eliminated from this booster first stage configuration. Soyuz-1 is capable of placing 2.85 metric tons (6,300 pounds) into a 200 kilometer orbit.

Its first flight test is expected in the last quarter of 2011 or early in the first quarter of 2012. It can be launched from the Plesetsk and Baikonur cosmodromes with their upgraded pad structures.