Launches / Angara A5/Briz-M

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Kosmos 2589 & 2590

Angara A5/Briz-M, flown by Russian Space Forces

Angara A5/Briz-M lifting off with the Kosmos 2589 & 2590 mission
Image via The Space Devs.

This was Russian Space Forces' 5th launch of 2025, and its 149th in all.

Counting every operator, it was the 135th orbital launch attempt anywhere in 2025, and the second from 35/1.

Launched
Thursday, June 19, 2025, 3:01 a.m. UTC
Window
Thursday, June 19, 2025, 2:30 to 4:00 a.m. UTC
Launch site
Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia
Rocket
Angara A5/Briz-M
Operator
Russian Space Forces

The mission

Unidentified payload for the Russian military. Kosmos 2590 was separated from Kosmos 2589 after launch.

Type
Government/top secret
Destination
Supersynchronous transfer orbit

The rocket

Angara A5/Briz-M is an Angara A5 with an Briz-M upper stage previously used on the Proton launch vehicle.

Height
55.4 m
Built by
Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center
First flew
December 23, 2014
Lifts to low Earth orbit
24,500 kg
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Lifts to geostationary transfer
5,400 kg
Diameter
8.9 m
Mass at liftoff
773 t
Thrust at liftoff
9,600 kN
Stages
3

3 flights, 3 of them successful.

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The operator

Russian Space Forces

The Russian Space Forces are a branch of the Russian Aerospace Forces, that provides aerospace warning, air sovereignty, and protection for Russia. Having been reestablished following August 1, 2015 merger between the Russian Air Force and the Russian Aerospace Defence Forces after a 2011 dissolving of the branch. The Russian Space Forces were originally formed on August 10, 1992 and the creation of the Russian Armed Forces.

Sector
Government
Based in
Russia
Founded
1992
Run by
Aleksandr Golovko, Commander

157 launches so far, 149 of them successful. The last 69 in a row went to plan.

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The launch site

It went up from 35/1 at Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia.

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