“On August 9, 2022, it is planned to launch the Soyuz-2.1b carrier rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome with the Fregat upper stage, which will launch the Khayyam Earth remote sensing spacecraft into orbit on the order of the Islamic Republic of Iran,” the report says. statement.
It is noted that the satellite was developed and manufactured at enterprises included in the Roscosmos perimeter.
Earlier it became known that a Soyuz-2.1v light-class rocket was launched at the Plesetsk cosmodrome, which will put into orbit a spacecraft developed in the interests of the Russian Ministry of Defense.