KRASNOYARSK, March 24 – RIA Novosti. Russian Ministry of Defense satellite “Geo-IK-2″ is scheduled to launch in the next two months after the decision of the state commission, said a source in the company “Information Satellite Systems” Academician MF Reshetnev “(ISS).
According to the interlocutor, the spacecraft is in the enterprise and can at any time to go to the Baikonur launch site.” The launch could occur in late April and May. Specific dates will be announced after the state commission will take a decision “, – he told
The first.” Geo-IK-2 “launched in 2010. In 2001, the satellite is declared lost due to an unsuccessful attempt to bring it. the calculated orbit. The launch of the second vehicle was postponed. at the same time the ISS began to establish a new satellite.
“Geo-IK-2″ will be used for geodetic measurements of high precision.
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