Russian Strategic Rocket Forces

Government / agency · Russia · founded 1991

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82Orbital launches
254All launches (incl. suborbital)
37Satellites in orbit
0Satellites built
0Rockets / spacecraft

Russian Strategic Rocket Forces is a government organisation based in Russia, founded in 1991. Our records show 82 orbital launches and 37 satellites in orbit.

Totals include the divisions, sites and subsidiaries listed under Structure below.

Part of Russian Ministry of Defense · More from Russia

Structure

Divisions, sites and subsidiaries

Upravleniye Nachalnika Kosmicheskikh Sredstv RF 29 orbital launches · 37 satellites in orbit
Activity

Orbital launches per year

1314

Last 15 years. Peak: 1 launches in one year.

Satellites in orbit

By platform

Strela-318
Strela-1 11F6258
Uragan3
Molniya-1T2
Raduga2
Molniya-32
Strela-2M1
Geizer1

Recent launches

DateMissionVehicleSiteResult
27 Aug 2026 BBYarsGNIIP Success
12 May 2026 2026-S233SarmatYAS Success
8 Jan 2026 6 BB?OreshnikGTsMP-4 Success
28 Nov 2025 15A28SarmatYAS Failure
22 Oct 2025 BBYarsGNIIP Success
21 Nov 2024 6 BB?OreshnikGTsMP-4 Success
21 Sep 2024 2024-A09SarmatGNIIP Failure
12 Apr 2024 BB?Yars-EGTsMP-4 Success
1 Mar 2024 BBYarsGNIIP Success
25 Oct 2023 BBYarsGNIIP Success
11 Apr 2023 BBYars-EGTsMP-4 Success
18 Feb 2023 2023-S05SarmatGNIIP Failure
Provenance

Where this comes from

This entry merges 1 source: GCAT (J. McDowell)
Verification status: single source, not yet reviewed by a person. How we build and check this data.

Launch and satellite data: Jonathan McDowell's GCAT (CC BY 4.0) and CelesTrak. Rockets, spacecraft and agencies: Launch Library 2 by The Space Devs and Wikidata. News headlines link to their publishers via the Spaceflight News API and RSS feeds. Records come from several sources and are matched automatically, so treat the directory as a research aid, not an authority. How the data is built and checked.