Russia in 2014, put into orbit a record number of spacecraft – RIA Novosti

MOSCOW, December 30 – RIA Novosti. Russia in 2014 put into orbit a record number of spacecraft – 80, including 31 satellite for state needs, 5 and 44 small commercial satellite, told RIA Novosti Roscosmos.

Russian companies in the sector were created and launched three spacecraft for foreign customers, the spokesman said. One of the conversion of carrier rockets, launched June 19 GMD Dombarovsky program “Dnepr”, put into orbit a record number of satellites – 34 spacecraft for customers from 17 countries.

In addition, for the year of Russian experts space industry have provided four missile launch “Soyuz-STB” from Europe’s spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana and one launch rocket “Zenit-2SL” program “Sea Launch”.