Russia Test Launches New Medium-Class Soyuz-5 Rocket at Baikonur Cosmodrome
A new Russian medium-class launch vehicle Soyuz-5 was launched for the first time from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 2 pm EDT (18:00 UTC) on Thursday, April 30, 2026, as part of its first flight tests, Russia’s state space corporation Roscosmos said.
The Soyuz-5 flight went well on its suborbital test. “The first and second stages of Soyuz 5 performed as planned, and a mockup was launched onto the calculated suborbital trajectory, followed by a reentry into an area in the Pacific Ocean previously closed to shipping and aviation,” according to Roscosmos.
The Soyuz-5 is a replacement for the medium-class Zenit rocket using domestic components for its fuel tanks. The Soyuz-5 uses the same basic type of Russia-built RD-171 engine that flew on its Zenit rocket. Soyuz-5’s performance slots it in-between Russia’s smaller legacy Soyuz-2 rocket and the heavy-lift Angara-A5.
Duration: 57 seconds
Release Date: May 1, 2026
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