Soyuz (rocket family) | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-03-25

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00:01:10 1 History
00:01:20 1.1 A space workhorse
00:02:46 1.2 Soyuz / Fregat
00:04:47 1.3 ISS crew transport
00:05:42 1.4 Recent incidents
00:07:36 1.5 Soyuz-2 and Guiana spaceport
00:09:43 2 Variants
00:10:45 3 Assembly
00:11:36 4 Prelaunch
00:12:34 5 Launch
00:13:41 6 Fairings used for uncrewed missions
00:16:07 7 Stages
00:16:17 7.1 First stage
00:19:09 7.2 Second stage
00:22:36 7.3 Third stage
00:24:21 8 See also



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Soyuz (Russian: Союз, meaning "union", GRAU index 11A511) is a family of expendable launch systems developed by OKB-1 and manufactured by Progress Rocket Space Centre in Samara, Russia. With over 1700 flights since its debut in 1966, the Soyuz is the most frequently used launch vehicle in the world.When the U.S. Space Shuttle program ended in 2011, Soyuz rockets became the only launch vehicles able to transport astronauts to the International Space Station.
The Soyuz vehicles are used as the launcher for the crewed Soyuz spacecraft as part of the Soyuz program, as well as to launch uncrewed Progress supply spacecraft to the International Space Station and for commercial launches marketed and operated by Starsem and Arianespace. All Soyuz rockets use RP-1 and liquid oxygen (LOX) propellant, with the exception of the Soyuz-U2, which used Syntin, a variant of RP-1, with LOX. The Soyuz family is a subset of the R-7 family.