Baikonur Site 31
1961 to present
Site Details
- Country: Kazakhstan
- Operator: Roscosmos
- Type: Government
Overview
The second R-7 launch pad at Baikonur, used for Soyuz rockets since the early 1960s. Long a partner to Gagarin Start, it became the only Russian pad for crewed Soyuz and Progress cargo flights to the International Space Station after Site 1 was retired in 2019.
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