Sunday, February 7, 2016

VKS withdrawn “Frigate” on the graveyard orbit – BBC News

The operation for transfer booster “Frigate” with the target orbit of the Russian navigation satellite “GLONASS-M” on the graveyard orbit is complete.

According to the report of the press service of the Defense Ministry information, the operation carried out specialists of the Main Space Center name Titov. Disposed “Frigate” performed by multiple inclusions of the propulsion system in order to make the accelerating pulse unit needed to slip into orbit around 19.2 thousand kilometers in height, according to TASS.

Currently, experts have begun to analyze and processing of information about the new space object to taking it to support ground-based Main space intelligence Centre space videoconferencing troops. This is the launch vehicle of the middle class “Soyuz-2.1b” with the navigation satellite “GLONASS-M”, which was launched in 3.21 MSK Sunday with Russia’s Plesetsk Cosmodrome in the Arkhangelsk region in the interests of the Defense Ministry. Supervised the preparation and launch of video conferencing in-Chief Colonel General Viktor Bondarev.

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