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Title: Soyuz-2-1B/Fregat launch with Glonass-M satellite - March 23, 2014
Post by: beidou on 07/08/2013 05:46 pm
http://ria.ru/science/20130708/948317668.html

Two satellites "Glonass" will be launched from Plesetsk in September-October

MOSCOW, Jul 8 - RIA Novosti. Sputnik Two "Glonass" planiruetsâ forsake the spaceport Plesetsk (Arkhangelsk Oblast) in September and October current years, soobŝil RIA Novosti gendirektor-genkonstruktor OAO "Information Satellite System name Rešetneva" (ISS, company-Manufacturer satellites ) Nikolai Testoedov.

Earlier it was reported that this year, plans to launch a Glonass satellite from Plesetsk in December.

"In December, from Plesetsk we do not plan to run. This year we are planning to launch two more" GLONASS "from Plesetsk, just filling in the group (GLONASS), due to a recent accident (rocket" Proton-M "). Needed devices we will deliver into orbit over the next four months, that is until October. first satellite "Glonass" We plan to launch (from Plesetsk) at the beginning of September, the second - at the end of October, "- Testoedov said, adding that the satellites will be launched with the help rocket "Soyuz".

Emergency "Proton-M" was launched just before the scheduled time
According to him, today the GLONASS constellation is not in danger, it is fully operational (24 active satellites).

Russian rocket with three navigation spacecraft "Glonass-M" fell on July 2 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in the first minute of the start. The head of Roscosmos, Vladimir Popovkin, previously said the rocket was launched at 0.4 seconds before the scheduled time, but this was not the cause of an emergency. According to him, the commission investigating the causes of the accident can call her reasons later this month.
Title: Re: Soyuz-2-1B/Fregat launch with Glonass-M satellite - February 25, 2014
Post by: beidou on 08/23/2013 09:44 pm
What about this launch? Any updates?
Title: Re: Soyuz-2-1B/Fregat launch with Glonass-M satellite - February 25, 2014
Post by: Stan Black on 08/24/2013 07:22 am
Payload: Uragan-M 14Ф113 № 754
Rocket: Soyuz-2-1B 14А14-1Б № 78085168
Upper stage: Fregat 14С44 № 112-01
Fairing: 14С737
Launch site: Plesetsk 17П32-С4 (ПУ № 43/4)

GLONASS block 48S
 - at time of order placement referred to as block 50S


State Rocket and Space Research and Production Centre «TsSKB-Progress»
Государственный научно-производственный ракетно-космический центр «ЦСКБ-Прогресс»

Soyuz-2-1B

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РН «Союз-2-1б» для запуска бл. КА «ГЛОНАСС-М» № 50с (353У.0001.002 ТУ)
1 003 700 000 Russian ruble
Order placed: 7th June 2012
Contractual period: May 2012 to 25th November 2014
Delivery: fourth quarter 2013
[source (http://www.zakupki.gov.ru/pgz/public/action/orders/info/common_info/show?notificationId=3276271)] [source (http://www.zakupki.gov.ru/pgz/public/action/contracts/info/common_info/show?contractInfoId=7735747)]

Delivery to launch site

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Подготовка к транспортировке, транспортировка, сопровождение РН «Союз-2-1б» для запуска КА системы ГЛОНАСС в эксплуатирующую организацию и возврат спецтранспорта на предприятие.
20 342 600 Russian ruble
Order placed: 10th December 2013
Contractual period: 1st January 2014 to 25th December 2014
[source (http://www.zakupki.gov.ru/pgz/public/action/orders/info/common_info/show?notificationId=7466114)] [source (http://www.zakupki.gov.ru/pgz/public/action/contracts/info/common_info/show?contractInfoId=13075719)]


Lavochkin Research and Production Association
Научно-производственное объединение имени С.А. Лавочкина

Fregat

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РБ «Фрегат» с ПхО для запуска блока КА «ГЛОНАСС-М» № 50с (РБФ-0000-0ТУ)
376 835 600 Russian ruble
Order placed: 7th June 2012
Contractual period: May 2012 to 25th November 2014
Delivery: fourth quarter 2013
[source (http://www.zakupki.gov.ru/pgz/public/action/orders/info/common_info/show?notificationId=3275773)] [source (http://www.zakupki.gov.ru/pgz/public/action/contracts/info/common_info/show?contractInfoId=9943274)]

14С737

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ГО для РН «Союз-2-1б» для запуска блока КА «ГЛОНАСС-М» № 50с (14С737-0000-0ТУ)
79 120 000 Russian ruble
Order placed: 31st May 2012
Contractual period: May 2012 to 25th November 2014
Delivery: fourth quarter 2013
[source (http://www.zakupki.gov.ru/pgz/public/action/orders/info/common_info/show?notificationId=3255117)] [source (http://www.zakupki.gov.ru/pgz/public/action/contracts/info/common_info/show?contractInfoId=5694089)]

Delivery to launch site

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Подготовка к транспортировке, транспортировка двух разгонных блоков «Фрегат» с двумя СЗБ (ГО 14С737) для запуска КА «ГЛОНАСС» в эксплуатирующую организацию и возврат спецтранспорта на предприятие.
5 353 400 Russian ruble
Order placed: 10th December 2013
Contractual period: 1st January 2014 to 25th December 2014
[source (http://www.zakupki.gov.ru/pgz/public/action/orders/info/common_info/show?notificationId=7465990)] [source (http://www.zakupki.gov.ru/pgz/public/action/contracts/info/common_info/show?contractInfoId=13076761)]


Centre for Operation of Land-Based Space Infrastructure (TsENKI)
Центр эксплуатации объектов наземной космической инфраструктуры (ЦЭНКИ)

Launch campaign

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Услуги по запуску блоков космических аппаратов системы ГЛОНАСС на ракетах-носителях «Союз-2-1б»
313 200 000 Russian ruble
Contractual period: up to 31st December 2014
[source (http://www.zakupki.gov.ru/epz/order/notice/ep44/view/common-info.html?regNumber=0173100007014000003)]


Joint Stock Company «Information Satellite Systems» in the name of Academician M.F. Reshetnev
Открытое акционерное общество «Информационные спутниковые системы» имени академика М.Ф. Решетнёва

Delivery of satellite to launch site

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Проведение регламентных работ, транспортировка 1 КА «ГЛОНАСС-М» на космодром Плесецк
10 345 000 Russian ruble
Order placed: 4th December 2013
Contractual period: up to 25th November 2014
Delivery: 2013 to 2014
[source (http://www.zakupki.gov.ru/pgz/public/action/orders/info/common_info/show?notificationId=7440486)] [source (http://www.zakupki.gov.ru/pgz/public/action/contracts/info/common_info/show?contractInfoId=12757909)]


Title: Re: Soyuz-2-1B/Fregat launch with Glonass-M satellite - February 25, 2014
Post by: beidou on 01/13/2014 04:17 pm
According to the website of the Russian magazine GLONASS Herald: The Journal on Navigation, the launch of a single GLONASS-M spacecraft from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome has been scheduled for 25 February 2014.
Title: Re: Soyuz-2-1B/Fregat launch with Glonass-M satellite - February 25, 2014
Post by: Galactic Penguin SST on 01/27/2014 07:30 am
Do we know if the satellite (#751?) has been delivered to the launch site yet? (for comparison #747 was delivered roughly one month before the launch date, so this one should happen very soon, if not already done)
Title: Re: Soyuz-2-1B/Fregat launch with Glonass-M satellite - February 25, 2014
Post by: Artyom. on 02/13/2014 10:12 am
Glonass-M satellite has arrived at the Plesetsk cosmodrome in preparation for launch.

http://www.iss-reshetnev.ru/?cid=news&nid=1744 (In Russian)
Title: Re: Soyuz-2-1B/Fregat launch with Glonass-M satellite - February 25, 2014
Post by: Galactic Penguin SST on 02/13/2014 10:32 am
Interesting that it's GLONASS-M #754 that was delivered. #751-753 for the next Proton-M/DM launch?

Also it seems that a new "high-temperature stabilization unit" is installed on it for testing - what's that?
Title: Re: Soyuz-2-1B/Fregat launch with Glonass-M satellite - March 11, 2014
Post by: Stan Black on 02/23/2014 09:27 pm
78085168.

This serial number for the rocket reveals  a couple of curious things. The first three digits are for the factory, the next two for half-year and year codes, and then the last three are the serial number.

If all the ‘16x’ serial numbers were ordered as a batch, and taking in the year codes then this rocket was intended for the second half of 2007.

It is near it’s 6˝ year warranty period.

I wonder what satellite it was intended to launch?

Title: Re: Soyuz-2-1B/Fregat launch with Glonass-M satellite - March 11, 2014
Post by: Stan Black on 03/09/2014 02:44 pm
It now looks like they are allocating the ‘blok’ numbers on a sequential, per launch basis. This has been allocated blok 48с, a number previously allocated to the failed launch last year.

http://www.oosa.unvienna.org/pdf/icg/2013/icg-8/wgA/A1_1.pdf
Title: Re: Soyuz-2-1B/Fregat launch with Glonass-M satellite - March 11, 2014
Post by: Galactic Penguin SST on 03/12/2014 10:14 am
This satellite should be heading for plane III as one of the satellites there, #724 (launched 2008 (http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=13999.0) - apparently all six of them launched that year suffers from chip degradation problems such that only one of them is now usable) failed last month, forcing the revival of satellite #714 to fill in the place, however it is already 7+ years old (launched Christmas 2005) and probably does not have much operational life left.
Someone at the NK forums (http://novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/forum/messages/forum12/topic14102/message1221443/#message1221443) calculated the in-plane launch time for plane III to be ~22:49 UTC on March 24 (which gives the opportunity that the actual launch time is on March 23 GMT).
Title: Re: Soyuz-2-1B/Fregat launch with Glonass-M satellite - March 11, 2014
Post by: Galactic Penguin SST on 03/21/2014 12:51 am
NOTAM for first stage/fairing drop zone:

V1842/14 - ATS RTE SEGMENTS CLSD AS FLW: A491 SOTER - UKHTA VORDME (UHT), A575 KUNAT - ABLAR, A834 AKADA - OGROM, B152 SONIB - UKHTA VORDME (UHT), B154 SONIB - BAMON, B486 AKADA - MEDER, R822 DIBIN - TITKO. SFC - UNL, DAILY 2245-2359, 23 MAR 22:45 2014 UNTIL 24 MAR 23:59 2014. CREATED: 19 MAR 09:53 2014

....which confirms that the planned launch time (http://novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/forum/messages/forum12/topic14102/message1222241/#message1222241) is ~22:53 UTC on March 23.

Title: Re: Soyuz-2-1B/Fregat launch with Glonass-M satellite - March 23, 2014
Post by: anik on 03/21/2014 08:42 am
As per http://ria.ru/space/20140321/1000512448.html, Soyuz-2-1B was rolled out to the launch pad today.
Title: Re: Soyuz-2-1B/Fregat launch with Glonass-M satellite - March 23, 2014
Post by: Satori on 03/22/2014 09:46 pm
According to my tables, if this launch is successful, this will be the 5000th successful orbital launch (using a very basic 'successful launch definition').

Can anyone confirm this?

Thanks!
Title: Re: Soyuz-2-1B/Fregat launch with Glonass-M satellite - March 23, 2014
Post by: Nicolas PILLET on 03/23/2014 07:55 am
According to my tables, if this launch is successful, this will be the 5000th successful orbital launch (using a very basic 'successful launch definition').

Can anyone confirm this?

Thanks!

I can only say that it will be 3168th Russian orbital launch, considering Sea Launch and Guiana Soyuzes as "Russian" launches...
Title: Re: Soyuz-2-1B/Fregat launch with Glonass-M satellite - March 23, 2014
Post by: Galactic Penguin SST on 03/23/2014 01:38 pm
http://ria.ru/space/20140323/1000698832.html (http://ria.ru/space/20140323/1000698832.html) reports a launch time of 22:54 UTC and spacecraft separation time of 02:26 UTC - but also states that the Fregat upper stage should separate at 22:57 UTC (well I hope not  ;)) so.......
Title: Re: Soyuz-2-1B/Fregat launch with Glonass-M satellite - March 23, 2014
Post by: input~2 on 03/23/2014 05:35 pm
NOTAM for 1st stage & fairing debris
V1842/14 -  ATS RTE SEGMENTS CLSD AS FLW: A491 SOTER - UKHTA VORDME (UHT), A575 KUNAT - ABLAR, A834 AKADA - OGROM, B152 SONIB - UKHTA VORDME (UHT), B154 SONIB - BAMON, B486 AKADA - MEDER, R822 DIBIN - TITKO. SFC - UNL, DAILY 2245-2359, 23 MAR 22:45 2014 UNTIL 24 MAR 23:59 2014. CREATED: 19 MAR 09:53 2014

NOTAM for 2nd stage debris
P1495/14 -  ATS RTE SEGMENTS CLSD: A843 PIRED - TOBOLSK NDB (NH), G356 TOBOLSK NDB (NH) - VOREG, R200 TOBOLSK NDB (NH) - RISIR, R211 TOBOLSK NDB (NH) - NIKUL, P865 LERPI - INKOR. SFC - UNL, DAILY 2245-2359, 23 MAR 22:45 2014 UNTIL 24 MAR 23:59 2014. CREATED: 19 MAR 09:49 2014

NOTAM for 3rd stage debris
F0858/14 -  ROCKET LAUNCH FROM RUSSIA FLW RECEIVED FROM GOVERNMENT OF RUSSIA: THE MINISTRY OF DEFENCE OF RUSSIA PLANS TO LAUNCH MISSILE INTO SPACE IN THE PERIOD FROM 2245 TO 2400 UTC ON MARCH 23, 2014 (ALT.DATE MARCH  24, 2014 BETWEEN 2245 TO 2400 UTC) AND TO SINK ITS FRAGMENTS IN THE WATERS OF THE PACIFIC OCEAN. CHARACTERISTICS OF IMPACT AREA: S6209.0  E16300.0 S6231.0  E16300.0 S6233.0  E16234.0 S6209.0  E16300.0. SFC - UNL, 23 MAR 22:45 2014 UNTIL 24 MAR 00:00 2014. CREATED: 17 MAR 09:43 2014

Title: Re: Soyuz-2-1B/Fregat launch with Glonass-M satellite - March 23, 2014
Post by: Satori on 03/23/2014 09:57 pm
Expected launch time has gone... waiting for news from Plesetsk!
Title: Re: Soyuz-2-1B/Fregat launch with Glonass-M satellite - March 23, 2014
Post by: Galactic Penguin SST on 03/23/2014 10:01 pm
Liftoff confirmed: http://ria.ru/space/20140324/1000743163.html (http://ria.ru/space/20140324/1000743163.html)
Title: Re: Soyuz-2-1B/Fregat launch with Glonass-M satellite - March 23, 2014
Post by: Satori on 03/23/2014 10:05 pm
And also from ITAR-TASS http://itar-tass.com/nauka/1069226
Title: Re: Soyuz-2-1B/Fregat launch with Glonass-M satellite - March 23, 2014
Post by: Galactic Penguin SST on 03/23/2014 11:40 pm
According to my tables, if this launch is successful, this will be the 5000th successful orbital launch (using a very basic 'successful launch definition').

Can anyone confirm this?

Thanks!

If your "basic successful launch definition" means that it gets a NORAD designation number after something gets into orbit, then I think it should be very close.....

hmmm I got this as the 4999th one - can you check if you have counted one too much?
Title: Re: Soyuz-2-1B/Fregat launch with Glonass-M satellite - March 23, 2014
Post by: Galactic Penguin SST on 03/24/2014 02:14 am
Spacecraft separated: http://www.interfax.ru/russia/366581 (http://www.interfax.ru/russia/366581)

Apparently this was also the 500th launch out of area 43.... (needs checking - Andrey?)
Title: Re: Soyuz-2-1B/Fregat launch with Glonass-M satellite - March 23, 2014
Post by: Galactic Penguin SST on 03/24/2014 05:08 am
Looks like the "500th launch of Plesetsk area 43" claim needs to be re-checked as Andrey's list (http://yadi.sk/d/VFraESbtGF62y) shows this as the 490th orbital launch out of area 43 (276 from pad 4 and 214 from pad 3), plus 1 R-7A and 1 sub-orbital Soyuz-2-1 launch.

News report: http://tvzvezda.ru/news/vstrane_i_mire/content/201403240301-zbr2.htm (http://tvzvezda.ru/news/vstrane_i_mire/content/201403240301-zbr2.htm) (notice the 500 sticker on the fairing)
Title: Re: Soyuz-2-1B/Fregat launch with Glonass-M satellite - March 23, 2014
Post by: Galactic Penguin SST on 03/24/2014 08:55 am
Looks like the "500th launch of Plesetsk area 43" claim needs to be re-checked as Andrey's list (http://yadi.sk/d/VFraESbtGF62y) shows this as the 490th orbital launch out of area 43 (276 from pad 4 and 214 from pad 3), plus 1 R-7A and 1 sub-orbital Soyuz-2-1 launch.

A possible explanation (http://novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/forum/messages/forum12/topic14102/message1229171/#message1229171) is that the "500th launch" milestone is for the squadron no. 14056 that did the launch, and the list may have included several launch attempts, aborts and maybe R-7 ICBM launches from other pads.
Title: Re: Soyuz-2-1B/Fregat launch with Glonass-M satellite - March 23, 2014
Post by: Artyom. on 03/24/2014 09:55 am
Photo before launch :) :
Title: Re: Soyuz-2-1B/Fregat launch with Glonass-M satellite - March 23, 2014
Post by: Satori on 03/24/2014 01:03 pm
According to my tables, if this launch is successful, this will be the 5000th successful orbital launch (using a very basic 'successful launch definition').

Can anyone confirm this?

Thanks!

If your "basic successful launch definition" means that it gets a NORAD designation number after something gets into orbit, then I think it should be very close.....

hmmm I got this as the 4999th one - can you check if you have counted one too much?

It was easy to find the difference... I'm counting the EXPRESS Mu-3S-II (M-3S2-8) launch on January 15, 1995, as a orbital launch. Initially thought as a failed launch, the capsule was latter found in Ghana after orbiting Earth. This was not catalogued, but I'm counting it as an orbital launch success.
Title: Re: Soyuz-2-1B/Fregat launch with Glonass-M satellite - March 23, 2014
Post by: Skyrocket on 03/24/2014 01:12 pm
Another point is, wether to count Discoverer-1 as orbital. At the time it received the orbital id "1959 Beta 1", but is now considered a failed launch, which did not reach orbit.
Title: Re: Soyuz-2-1B/Fregat launch with Glonass-M satellite - March 23, 2014
Post by: Satori on 03/24/2014 01:28 pm
Another point is, wether to count Discoverer-1 as orbital. At the time it received the orbital id "1959 Beta 1", but is now considered a failed launch, which did not reach orbit.

Good point! So, that changes all and the 5000th successful orbital launch will be the NROL-67 mission... if successful.
Title: Re: Soyuz-2-1B/Fregat launch with Glonass-M satellite - March 23, 2014
Post by: Galactic Penguin SST on 03/24/2014 03:23 pm
Orbits:

39620/2014-012A: 19128 x 19154 km x 64.81 deg. (epoch 14:44 UTC) -> satellite
39621/2014-012B: 19276 x 19620 km x 64.77 deg. (epoch 13:32 UTC) -> Fregat
Title: Re: Soyuz-2-1B/Fregat launch with Glonass-M satellite - March 23, 2014
Post by: Nicolas PILLET on 03/24/2014 05:24 pm
Someone knows why the Fregat has a strange serial number ?
Title: Re: Soyuz-2-1B/Fregat launch with Glonass-M satellite - March 23, 2014
Post by: Nicolas PILLET on 03/24/2014 05:40 pm
РН «Союз-2-1б» для запуска бл. КА «ГЛОНАСС-М» № 50с (353У.0001.002 ТУ)

anik, you wrote "Block 48s" in the "plan of Russian launches" thread. Do you have more information on this ?
Title: Re: Soyuz-2-1B/Fregat launch with Glonass-M satellite - March 23, 2014
Post by: Stan Black on 03/24/2014 09:13 pm
РН «Союз-2-1б» для запуска бл. КА «ГЛОНАСС-М» № 50с (353У.0001.002 ТУ)

anik, you wrote "Block 48s" in the "plan of Russian launches" thread. Do you have more information on this ?

It now looks like they are allocating the ‘blok’ numbers on a sequential, per launch basis. This has been allocated blok 48с, a number previously allocated to the failed launch last year.

http://www.oosa.unvienna.org/pdf/icg/2013/icg-8/wgA/A1_1.pdf

At the time of ordering it was scheduled to be launch number 50s. After the recent failures these plans changed; and more recent government procurements of rockets and services have omitted the launch numbers. Latest order was for three Soyuz rockets and five fairings; no sequence number or indication of GLONASS satellite model to be launched.

They also ordered rockets and pieces for the third K, and I guess these will actually be used for a different launch with the recent delays to the K models.
Title: Re: Soyuz-2-1B/Fregat launch with Glonass-M satellite - March 23, 2014
Post by: Stan Black on 03/25/2014 09:35 am
This satellite should be heading for plane III as one of the satellites there, #724 (launched 2008 (http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=13999.0) - apparently all six of them launched that year suffers from chip degradation problems such that only one of them is now usable) failed last month, forcing the revival of satellite #714 to fill in the place, however it is already 7+ years old (launched Christmas 2005) and probably does not have much operational life left.
Someone at the NK forums (http://novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/forum/messages/forum12/topic14102/message1221443/#message1221443) calculated the in-plane launch time for plane III to be ~22:49 UTC on March 24 (which gives the opportunity that the actual launch time is on March 23 GMT).

Now showing
http://www.glonass-iac.ru/en/GLONASS/
Title: Re: Soyuz-2-1B/Fregat launch with Glonass-M satellite - March 23, 2014
Post by: siweifdu on 03/26/2014 01:41 am
Excuse me. Did this flight use the Fregat upper stage or the improved Fregat-M as Gunter has pointed out? Many thanks.
Title: Re: Soyuz-2-1B/Fregat launch with Glonass-M satellite - March 23, 2014
Post by: anik on 03/26/2014 03:14 am
Did this flight use the Fregat upper stage or the improved Fregat-M as Gunter has pointed out?

Fregat-M.
Title: Re: Soyuz-2-1B/Fregat launch with Glonass-M satellite - March 23, 2014
Post by: siweifdu on 03/26/2014 03:15 am
Did this flight use the Fregat upper stage or the improved Fregat-M as Gunter has pointed out?

Fregat-M.

Thanks Anik~~
Title: Re: Soyuz-2-1B/Fregat launch with Glonass-M satellite - March 23, 2014
Post by: Galactic Penguin SST on 03/27/2014 04:34 am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPCF0bqhiHQ
Title: Re: Soyuz-2-1B/Fregat launch with Glonass-M satellite - March 23, 2014
Post by: Artyom. on 04/01/2014 03:17 am
Hi-Res photo of the launch  :)
Title: Re: Soyuz-2-1B/Fregat launch with Glonass-M satellite - March 23, 2014
Post by: pargoo on 04/01/2014 09:50 pm
    Nice :)
Title: Re: Soyuz-2-1B/Fregat launch with Glonass-M satellite - March 23, 2014
Post by: Galactic Penguin SST on 04/18/2014 06:10 am
GLONASS-M #754 has been set to usable on April 14 - unfortunately this was overshadowed by the malfunctioning of satellite #730 in plane I 4 days earlier so the GLONASS system currently only has 23 satellites in operation right now.

Plus the system suffers from yet another major failure on April 14 (http://gpsworld.com/glonass-loses-control-again/), leaving 8 of the satellites transmitting error messages for half an hour. Whoops....  ::)
Title: Re: Soyuz-2-1B/Fregat launch with Glonass-M satellite - March 23, 2014
Post by: Stan Black on 03/07/2016 09:11 pm
78085168.

This serial number for the rocket reveals  a couple of curious things. The first three digits are for the factory, the next two for half-year and year codes, and then the last three are the serial number.

If all the ‘16x’ serial numbers were ordered as a batch, and taking in the year codes then this rocket was intended for the second half of 2007.

It is near it’s 6˝ year warranty period.

I wonder what satellite it was intended to launch?

The original plans for launch of GLONASS on Soyuz have changed. Early on Baikonur was to host the first solo launches by Soyuz, along with triplets on Proton. The first two fairings ordered for Soyuz rockets were to be sent to Baikonur.

A contract dated 15th March 2010 was for third stage engine 14Д23 № 5Л, to be used for a rocket to launch «GLONASS № 1».

It looks like this rocket was intended to launch a GLONASS after all; but from Baikonur.

http://www.zakupkiold.gov.ru/Tender/ViewPurchase.aspx?PurchaseId=439504
http://sudact.ru/arbitral/doc/J3XZLnhhm4dh/