Carrier rocket “Soyuz-2.1b” satellite “GLONASS-M” was launched from Plesetsk – RIA Novosti

11:50 29.05.2016

(updated: 12:27 29.05.2016 )

6788 46 2

MOSCOW, May 29 – RIA Novosti. Booster middle class “Soyuz-2.1b” with the navigation satellite “GLONASS-M” was launched from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in the Arkhangelsk region at 11.45 MSK, RIA Novosti reported the press service of the Russian Ministry of Defense.

According to military, all-launch operations and launch the rocket itself passed normally. This is the third launch rocket from Plesetsk this type in 2016.

The general coordination of the launch rocket carried the commander of the Space Forces FSI Russian Lieutenant-General Alexander Golovko.

As reported later in the office, the upper stage “Fregat” satellite successfully separated from the rocket.

Output another satellite “GLONASS-M” on the orbit constellation should support the Russian GLONASS navigation system. As previously reported by the chief of department of navigation space systems of the state corporation “Roscosmos” Andrei Volkov, in addition to this start-up company plans to spend another seven before the end of the year.

The flight tests of space rocket complex “Soyuz-2″ began at the cosmodrome “Plesetsk” November 8, 2004 of the year. Over the past twelve years, from the northern cosmodrome conducted 27 launches of carrier rockets “Soyuz-2″ modernization phases 1a, 1b and 1c.

“Soyuz-2″ replaces the carrier rocket “Soyuz-U”, which was held on the operation of the Plesetsk Cosmodrome from 1973 to 2012.