The Samara rocket into orbit a satellite for Glonass - TVNZ

26 April 23 at 9:00 Moscow time from the launch pad test of the military complex at Plesetsk Cosmodrome launch is made of a space rocket “Soyuz-2.1b” with the spacecraft (SC) “Glonass-M” on the board. Start calculation made a joint Russian Defense Ministry experts and enterprises of the rocket and space industry.

using rockets made in the Federal State Unitary Enterprise “SRP” TsSKB-Progress “(Samara), the spacecraft was successfully inserted into the target orbit and adopted by the management. He will join the existing constellation of Russian global navigation satellite system GLONASS. Tells the Federal Space Agency.