Today, February 9, representatives of Roskosmos officially shared a rather worthy achievement – the press service of the state corporation stated that from October 2018 to the current moment, exactly one hundred successful launches of Russian-made space launch vehicles in a row have been carried out. The honorary anniversary launch of the carrier rocket took place today at the Baikonur Cosmodrome – specialists launched the Soyuz-2.1a carrier rocket into space, which is supposed to deliver the Progress MS-22 cargo ship with various payloads and equipment for the International Space Station into Earth’s orbit .
Roskosmos said that the lion’s share of launches falls on launch vehicles of the Soyuz family – out of 100 launches, they account for 82. The leader in the list is the Soyuz-2.1b launch vehicle, thanks to which 36 successful launches were made in open space, in second place is the Soyuz-2.1a rocket – 27 launches. Then there are 11 launches of the Proton-M launch vehicle, then the Soyuz-FG and Soyuz-ST-B rockets (five launches per model), four successful Angara missions and three launches fall on the Rokot . Despite the fact that Soyuz are relatively old launch vehicles, they demonstrate phenomenal efficiency to this day.
Also, Roscosmos employees recalled that relatively recently, in June 2021, a national record was set for 60 successful rocket launches into space in a row. The series has continued since then and, given modern technology and quality control, it will only increase from year to year. The previous record, which was set from February 1992 to March 1993, was 59 successful launches in a row, so that at the moment Roscosmos has managed to almost double the technology of thirty years ago.
Source: Trash Box
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