VKS completed operations for transfer block “Briz-KM” with the satellite’s orbit – RIA Novosti

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MOSCOW, February 16 – RIA Novosti After a successful launch into orbit European satellite “Sentinel-3A” ( “Sentinel-3A”). running in 20.58 MSK from Plesetsk rocket carrier “Rokot”, experts of the Main test space behalf Titova center conducted operations for transfer into the upper stage “Breeze-KM” with the target orbit of the spacecraft on the so-called “graveyard orbit”, told RIA Novosti spokesman and information of the Ministry of defense of the Russian Federation.

“Disposed” Breeze-kM “was carried out by multiple inclusions of the propulsion system in order to make the upper stage of pulses required for the disposal of it for more than 400 kilometers high orbit perigee and more than 700 km at apogee, “- said the agency

After the withdrawal.” Breeze-kM “on the graveyard orbit specialists space control Center have information about it in the main catalog of space objects and started to analyze and coordinate treatment and non-coordinate information about the new space object to taking it to support ground-based Main space intelligence Centre space videoconferencing troops.