The RD-107А/108А engines worked successfully as part of launch vehicles during 14 launches, and the NK-33A was used for one launch

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The RD-107А/108А and NK-33A rocket engines manufactured by Samara-based UEC-Kuznetsov included in United Engine Corporation ensured 15 starts of the Soyuz type space launch vehicles from the Baikonur, Vostochny and Plesetsk cosmodromes in 2024. 

The RD-107А/RD-108А engines installed on stages I and II of the Soyuz-2.1a and Soyuz-2.1b launch vehicles worked properly during 14 launches. The NK-33A engine on stage I of the Russian Soyuz-2.1v small-lift launch vehicle was used for one launch. The launch vehicles carried miscellaneous spacecraft to orbit and delivered crews and cargo to the International Space Station. 

UEC’s engines ensured the delivery of the crews of long space missions 71 and 72 and expedition 21 as well as of four cargo spacecraft to ISS for life support of the station. 

A landmark launch took place on 5 November from the Vostochny cosmodrome — a group of 51 Russian satellites was sent to orbit. Simultaneous launch of such number of Russian satellites was a record-breaking event in the Russian space research history. The 2000th anniversary launch of the R-7 family space rocket took place on 25 December — the Soyuz-2.1b was launched from the Baikonur cosmodrome.