Soyuz STA
ActiveProgress Rocket Space Center (PRSC)
Dec. 17, 2011
Description
The 2.1a version includes conversion from analog to digital flight control system and uprated engines on the booster and the first stage with improved injection systems. The new digital flight control and telemetry systems allow the rocket to launch from a fixed rather than angled launch platform and adjust its heading in flight. A digital control system also enables the launch of larger commercial satellites with wider and longer payload fairings such as the ST-type fairing. These fairings introduce too much aerodynamic instability for the old analog system to handle. This stage continues to use the RD-0110 engine. The 2.1a/ST version is sometimes called Soyuz ST-A.
Specifications
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Stages
3 -
Length
46.3 m -
Diameter
2.95 m -
Fairing Diameter
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Launch Mass
312 T -
Thrust
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Family
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Name
Soyuz STA -
Family
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Variant
Fregat -
Alias
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Full Name
Soyuz STA Fregat
Payload Capacity
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Launch Cost
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Low Earth Orbit
7020 kg -
Geostationary Transfer
Orbit
2810 kg -
Direct Geostationary
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Sun-Synchronous Capacity
4230 kg
Progress Rocket Space Center
Commercial
Dmitry Baranov
PRSC 1996Progress Rocket Space Centre, formerly known as TsSKB-Progress, is a space science and aerospace research company which is known for manufacturing launch vehicles and satellites. Most notably, Progress Rocket Space Centre is the manufacturer of Soyuz launch vehicles.
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