Carrier rocket “Soyuz-2.1b” with the satellite was launched from the Plesetsk – RIA Novosti

MOSCOW, February 7 – RIA Novosti. Booster middle class “Soyuz-2.1b” with the navigation satellite “GLONASS-M” on Sunday was launched from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in the Arkhangelsk Region, RIA Novosti reported the press service of the Russian Ministry of Defense.

This is the first launch of “Soyuz-2.1b” from Plesetsk in 2016.

“On Sunday, at 03.21 MSK … combat crews of the space forces Air-space forces successfully implemented starting launch vehicle of the middle class “Soyuz-2.1b” with the navigation spacecraft “Glonass-M”, – stated in the press service of the

General guidance exercised starting in chief videoconferencing Colonel General Viktor Bondarev According to the Defense Ministry, all.. prelaunch operations himself start “Soyuz-2.1b” passed cleanly.

The Defense Ministry reminded that the “Soyuz-2″ rocket flight tests began at the cosmodrome Plesetsk November 8, 2004. Over the past twelve years, from the northern cosmodrome conducted 25 launches carrier rockets “Soyuz-2″ modernization phases 1a, 1b and 1c also 16 launches of the missiles carried from the Baikonur cosmodrome and 13 -. to the space center in Kourou (French Guiana)

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