In 2014, Russia launched to the orbit of a record number of spacecraft, becoming the first in the world in the number of space launches. This year the country put into orbit 80 units, 31 of which – a satellite for public use, 5 and 44 small commercial satellite.
One of the conversion of carrier rockets, launched June 19 GMD Dombarovsky program” Dnepr ” , put into orbit a record number of satellites – 34 for customers in 17 countries around the world. For the year experts provided four missile launch “Soyuz-STB” from Europe’s spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana and one launch rocket “Zenith -2SL “program” Sea Launch “.
Russian companies in the sector were created and launched three spacecraft for foreign customers, RIA Novosti reported with reference to the representative of the Russian Space Agency. In December alone from the Baikonur Baykonkur launch vehicle “Proton-M” with a European communications satellite Astra-2G, and before that the “Soyuz-2.1b” with Russian satellite sensing “Resource-P”.
Last week Vladimir Putin at a video conference attended the opening ceremony of the first in the history of Russian test launch of the carrier rocket heavy class “Angara-A5″ from the Plesetsk cosmodrome. The head of the Defense Ministry reported to the president about the successful test launch. Putin congratulated the participants start, noting the importance of this event in the space industry.
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