This must be the impact zone for the Soyuz-2's third stage, meaning it is suborbital and the payload will be delivered to orbit by the Fregat upper stage. This would become the first Soyuz-2/Fregat combination to fly to this particular type of orbit from Plesetsk. A possible payload is a trio of small optical reconnaissance satellites named Razbeg (military index 14F169). These are built by the VNIIEM Corporation in Moscow and may be similar in design to Khayyam, the remote sensing satellite that VNIIEM built for Iran and which was launched by a Soyuz-2.1b/Fregat from Baikonur in August 2022. For those interested, there is more analysis in this thread on the NASA Spaceflight Forum: https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=60862.0 Bart Hendrickx ----- Oorspronkelijk bericht ----- Van: "Marco Langbroek" <marco_at_langbroek.org> Aan: "Bart Hendrickx" <bhen_at_telenet.be>, "seesat-l" <seesat-l_at_lists.seesatmail.org> Verzonden: Maandag 13 mei 2024 11:41:06 Onderwerp: Re: Nav Warnings for Plesetsk space launch This one in the northeast Pacific belongs to the same launch too, judging from the time window, and would represent a stage splashdown area: 120900Z MAY 24 NAVAREA XII 330/24(18). EASTERN NORTH PACIFIC. 1. HAZARDOUS OPERATIONS, SPACE DEBRIS 2000Z TO 2300Z DAILY 16 THRU 26 MAY IN AREA BOUND BY 29-21.00N 126-46.00W, 29-50.00N 128-52.00W, 24-22.00N 130-24.00W, 23-53.00N 128-15.00W. 2. CANCEL THIS MSG 270001Z MAY 24. It is some 1100 km out of the California coast. - Marco _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list https://lists.seesatmail.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-lReceived on Mon May 13 2024 - 12:50:12 UTC
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