TSIOLKOVSKY, Amur region. Feb 29 (Interfax) - The Progress Rocket Space Center will send two Soyuz-2 launch vehicles to Vostochny Cosmodrome in fall 2024, in addition to two launch vehicles already stored there, Progress General Director Dmitry Baranov said.
"Two vehicles are in various stages of readiness, two vehicles have been built for this cosmodrome and stored in Samara, and another one will be built in September. So, we may bring if not three, than definitely two vehicles here sometime in fall," Baranov said after the launch of a Soyuz-2.1b rocket carrying the Meteor-M 2-4 weather satellite.
The Soyuz-2.1b took off from Vostochny at 8:43 a.m. on Thursday and put a Fregat upper stage coupled with the Meteor-M and 18 small satellites into orbit.