The second launch of the new launch vehicle Soyuz-5 is planned for 2027.

The second launch of the new launch vehicle Soyuz-5 is planned for 2027.

The second launch of the new launch vehicle Soyuz-5 is planned for 2027, said the head of the state corporation Roscosmos Dmitry Bakanov at a meeting with the heads of diplomatic missions.

"This year, on April 30, we launched what we call Soyuz-5 as part of the Bairak project; you, our friends [from Kazakhstan], call it Sankar, Sokol, a fundamentally new rocket. Next year the second launch is being prepared, and after the third it will go into serial production."

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In May, Bakanov reported that Roscosmos is preparing another two or three new launch vehicles of the Soyuz-5 type, after which it plans to transfer it to the series.