OREANDA-NEWS The second launch of the Soyuz-5 medium-heavy rocket will take place in 2027, said Dmitry Bakanov, CEO of the Roscosmos state corporation, at a meeting with the heads of diplomatic missions. This is reported by TASS.

"The second launch is being prepared next year, and after the third it will go into serial production," said the head.

In June, Russian First Deputy Prime Minister Denis Manturov announced that the cost of launching one kilogram of payload from Soyuz-5 is a third lower than that of Soyuz-2.1.