Primera Soyuz-2.1a propulsada por Naftilo

Video from the channel Galileo de Almería about Soyuz 2.1a, linked on its Above Ten Thousand entry. Duration: 9:35. Video type: Launch.

The video captures the launch of a Soyuz-2.1a rocket. The channel presents it as the first flight of this launch vehicle using naftil fuel. Flight control communications are heard in Russian. The payload is the Kondor-FKA No. 1 satellite, flying with a Fregat upper stage.

After ignition, mission control reports every ten seconds that the control system and the launch vehicle's structure are functioning normally and that the flight is stable. At around two minutes twenty seconds, the strap-on boosters shut down and separate. Around the four-minute mark, the payload fairing halves are jettisoned. After five minutes, pressurisation of the third stage's tanks and its ignition are confirmed; this is followed by the shutdown and separation of the second stage and the jettisoning of the tail-section panel. The third stage operates normally over the following minutes.

At the end, the shutdown of the third stage engine and the separation of the head block are announced. It consists of the Fregat upper stage No. 14201 and the Kondor-FKA No. 1 satellite, which is left in the reference orbit.