A Russian Soyuz-2.1b rocket has put the Cosmos 2564 (Kosmos 2565) satellite into orbit. The codename indicates a military launch from the Plesetsk launch site at 2110 GMT on 30 November 2022. Lift off was at Given the likely intended final 900 km circular orbit (the satellite was initially injected into a 900 x 240 km orbit at 67.1 degrees inclination), the satellite is likely a Lotos-S1 SIGINT (Signals Intelligence) satellite which is part of the Liana system. Before the launch, analysts had speculated that this was a launch of the Neitron reconnaissance satellite.
Russian Aerospace Forces
