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Office unit of the launch vehicle took place in the normal mode, according to RIA Novosti, the representative of the Defense Ministry troops Aerospace Defense Colonel Dmitry Zenin.
The missile was launched from the Plesetsk cosmodrome on Friday at 18:24 MSK. The launch took place in the normal mode.
This is the second launch of the carrier rocket “Soyuz-2.1a”, which forces the Military Aerospace Defense held in 2015 from Plesetsk. Previous launch from Baikonur was held on February 27. Just this year there have been three Plesetsk launch space rockets, two missile launch “Soyuz-2″ and one launch of “Rokot».
Run was the first after two accidents.
April 28 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome launch vehicle “Soyuz-2.1a” the ship “Progress”. After separation of the third stage, the truck stopped coming telemetry. “Progress” was not able to enter the calculated orbit. In late April, the Federal Space Agency acknowledged the loss of “progress”. The second accident occurred on May 16. On the day rocket “Proton-M” with the Mexican satellite MexSat-1 fell into the Trans-Baikal region shortly after the launch. After that launches were delayed
On Thursday, Interfax reports with reference to the representative of the space industry to launch rockets, pending disaster rockets “Soyuz-2.1a” and “Proton-M “, will be resumed in July. According to him, July 3 launched rocket “Soyuz-U” with transport cargo vehicle “Progress M-28M”. Following July 24, will be launched carrier rocket “Soyuz-FG” with transport manned spacecraft “Soyuz TMA-17M».
«launches of carrier rockets” Proton-M “has no plans” – said Interfax interlocutor.
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