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24.03.2014
The Plesetsk cosmodrome successfully launched satellite
March 24 at 2:00 MSK 54 minutes from the launch complex of the platform 43 State Test Cosmodrome Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation the cosmodrome Plesetsk made space rocket Soyuz-2.1b with the upper stage (RB) Fregat and spacecraft (SC) Glonass-M. Start calculation made joint Russian Defense Ministry experts and enterprises aerospace industry.
Glonass-M navigation satellite
In accordance with cyclogram flight spacecraft Glonass-M manufactured by JSC Information Satellite Systems them. (Academician Reshetnev Zheleznogorsk) injected into the target orbit and adopted by the management. He will join the existing constellation of domestic global navigation satellite system GLONASS. Prior to the launch of on-orbit spacecraft were 28 GLONASS system. 24 of them have been used for their intended purpose, three were Spares, and another was on the flight tests phase.
Rocket Soyuz-2.1b established in FSUE SRP TsSKB Progress (Samara), the upper stage Fregat "made in FSUE" NPO. Lavochkin.
GLONASS system is defined as a dual-use system that provides the solution of problems in the interests of the Russian Defense Ministry and civilian users. Access to civilian navigation signals of global navigation satellite system GLONASS available to Russian and foreign consumers at no cost and without restrictions.
ROSCOSMOS Press Release: http://www.federalspace.ru/20378/
Images, Video, Text, Credits: Roscosmos press service / ROSCOSMOS TV / Rianovosti / Translation: Orbiter.ch Aerospace.
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