Built to support testing of the R-7 missile in the 1950s, Site 31/6 is currently the only operational Soyuz launch pad at Baikonur meaning that is it also the launch pad currently used by crewed ...
Soyuz lifted off from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome at about 10:31 Moscow Time (07:31 UTC), beginning a multi-hour mission to deliver the Tundra No.4 satellite into an elliptical Molniya orbit.