Soyuz-U
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Soyuz-U (GRAU index: 11A511U) was a Soviet and later Russian expendable medium-lift launch vehicle designed by the TsSKB design bureau and constructed at the Progress factory in Samara, Russia. The U designation stands for unified, as the launch vehicle was the replacement for the Voskhod rocket and several earlier Soyuz rocket variants. The Soyuz-U is part of the larger R-7 rocket family, which evolved from the R-7 Semyorka, the first intercontinental ballistic missile.
Key facts
- Rocket.name
- Soyuz-U
- Rocket.image
- Soyuz TM-31 launch.jpg
- Rocket.caption
- Soyuz-U carrying the first crew to the International Space Station on the Soyuz TM-31 mission, October 2000
- Rocket.function
- Medium-lift launch vehicle
- Rocket.manufacturer
- TsSKB-Progress
- Rocket.stages
- 3 or 4
- Rocket.family
- R-7 (Soyuz)
- Rocket.derivatives
- Soyuz-U2Soyuz-FG
- Rocket.status
- Retired
- Rocket.first
- 18 May 1973
- Rocket.last
- 22 February 2017 (Progress MS-05)
- Rocket.success
- 765
- Rocket.fail
- 21
- Rocket.other_outcome
- Soyuz T-10a
- Rocket/payload.location
- LEO
- Rocket/stage.type
- stage
- Rocket/stage.diff
- optional
- Rocket/stage.name
- Ikar
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Wikidata facts
- Image
- Soyuz TMA-3 launch.jpg
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- Commons category
- Soyuz-U
- first flight
- 1973-05-18
- start time
- 1973-05-18
- end time
- 2017-02-22
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- Development
- Versions
- Human spaceflight
- Missions after 2000
- Replacement
- Gallery
- Notes
- References
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Soyuz-U (GRAU index: 11A511U) was a Soviet and later Russian expendable medium-lift launch vehicle designed by the TsSKB design bureau and constructed at the Progress factory in Samara, Russia. The U designation stands for unified, as the launch vehicle was the replacement for the Voskhod rocket and several earlier Soyuz rocket variants. The Soyuz-U is part of the larger R-7 rocket family, which evolved from the R-7 Semyorka, the first intercontinental ballistic missile.
The first Soyuz-U flight took place on 18 May 1973, carrying as its payload Kosmos 559, a Zenit military surveillance satellite. The final flight of a Soyuz-U rocket took place on 22 February 2017, carrying Progress MS-05 to the International Space Station.