Defence Blog says Russia’s defence ministry spoke on 18 September: a Soyuz 2.1-b left Plesetsk the evening before with an unnamed ministry satellite. Jonathan McDowell had clocked a Soyuz near 1650 UTC on 17 September. The blog treats the viral jellyfish as twilight sun on the plume. Live Science and Science News homepages this slot had no matching confirmation.
Defence Blog says the ministry spoke on 18 September about a Soyuz-2.1b out of Plesetsk the evening before, with a satellite for ministry use and no payload name. Launch video went out with that note, according to the blog. Those figures and proper names sit in that same-day article and attach to this event only.[1]
On Thursday, tracker Jonathan McDowell wrote that a Soyuz looked to have left Plesetsk near 1650 UTC on 17 September, with a possible Glonass passenger, ahead of the official note, Defence Blog says. The later ministry text did not repeat the Glonass name. Those figures and proper names sit in that same-day article and attach to this event only.[1]
Defence Blog describes the tentacled glow as sun still hitting the exhaust while the ground sits in shadow, a familiar twilight rocket look. The blog’s account of the viral night-sky jellyfish sits beside this confirmed Plesetsk liftoff. Those figures and proper names sit in that same-day article and attach to this event only.[1]
