“Glonass-M” launched into an intermediate orbit to replenish navigation categories – TASS

MOSCOW, May 30. / TASS /. The upper stage “Fregat” in conjunction with a navigation satellite “GLONASS-M” at the estimated time cleanly separated from the third stage of the carrier rocket “Soyuz-2.1b”, Tass reported in the management of Press and Information Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.

“Withdrawal spacecraft” Glonass-M “into orbit boost block” Frigate “will take several hours” – said the Defense Ministry

“Soyuz-2.1b” with the navigation satellite “GLONASS-M. “I was launched from the platform number 43 Plesetsk (Arkhangelsk region). Start was held at 11.45 MSK combat crews of the Space Forces Aerospace Forces, advised by the press service of the Defense Ministry and information.

“The general management of start-up carried the commander of the Space Forces, of aerospace forces, Lieutenant-General Alexander Golovko, who arrived at the launch site to monitor the preparation and launch of the GLONASS space apparatus “, – said the managing

All-launch operations and launch missiles took place in a normal mode.. Means ground automated control complex responsible for supervising the launch and support the flight, noted in the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.

The rocket is taken to support ground-based Air and Space Forces (VKS), reported earlier in the management of Press and Information . Russia’s Defense Ministry
“space rocket” Soyuz-2.1b “is taken to support ground-based Chief test space center named after GS Titov VCS space forces,” – said in the Defense Ministry

. This is the second launch of the satellite “Glonass-M” and the third start of the middle class “Soyuz-2″ launch vehicle from Plesetsk this year. Flight tests of the space rocket complex “Soyuz-2″ began at Baikonur November 8, 2004. Over the past 12 years from Plesetsk was conducted 27 launches of carrier rockets “Soyuz-2″ steps 1a modernization, 1b and 1c.

The state corporation “Roscosmos” previously told that before the end of 2017 constellation of domestic navigation GLONASS system can fill up to eight satellites. At the same time for the launch can be used not only the “Union”, and heavy rocket “Proton-M”. According to the source TASS, in the space industry, the launch of “Proton” with up to three devices “Glonass” could take place before the end of 2016.

NPOA -. One of the largest Russian companies in the development and manufacture of systems management and electronic equipment for missile and space technology, automation of technological processes in industry. Provides full technological cycle of a unique automated systems and management systems are widely used in space, at sea, in oil and gas industry, metallurgy, energy, utilities and transport. In particular, the control system makes NPOA recent Russian carrier rocket “Soyuz-2″.