Tuesday, December 24, 2013

"Roar" with three military satellites launched from Plesetsk - RBC - RBC.Ru

Booster “rumble” with the upper stage “Breeze-KM” and three military spacecraft was launched from the Plesetsk cosmodrome in the Arkhangelsk region, the “Russia 24″.

“The launch of a space rocket light class” rumble “was done at 04:31 Moscow time from the launcher platform number 3 number 133 state test Plesetsk cosmodrome,” – said the spokesman of the Ministry of Defence Colonel Dmitry Zenin.

at 04:34 MSK spacecraft took the support of ground facilities Main Test Space Center named after Titov.

This is the fourth launch

RN “Roar” in 2013. from Plesetsk. Upcoming launch was carried out on November 22. Then the “rumble” took into space three European unit Swarm, designed to study the Earth’s magnetic field.

Booster easy class “Roar” created FSUE “State Research and Production Center Khrunichev” based removed from service two-stage ballistic missile RS-18 and is designed to launch satellites weighing up to 2 tons into low Earth orbit.

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