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11/14/2012
November 14 at 15 hours 42 minutes MSK from Launch Complex 43 site Plesetsk State Test joint calculation Forces aerospace defense and enterprise space industry the launch of a space rocket Soyuz-2.1a with the upper stage Fregat and spacecraft (SC) for the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation.
Soyuz-2.1a launch
The estimated time of the spacecraft launched into the target orbit and adopted by the management.
For SC injection into orbit used rocket Soyuz-2.1a (the leading developer and manufacturer - HNP RCC TsSKB Progress, Samara) and the upper stage Fregat, developed at the FSUE NPO. Lavochkin.
Meridian satellite
The spacecraft is manufactured by JSC ISS Academician Reshetnev (Zheleznogorsk) for assignments on behalf of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation and connecting vessels and aircraft ice patrol in the North Sea route to coastal land stations as well as satellite communications northern regions of Siberia and the Far East.
The series of launches will replace Russia’s ageing Molniya guidance system. The country has almost 100 satellites in orbit. Most of them serve military or dual purposes.
Original text in Russian: http://www.federalspace.ru/main.php?id=2&nid=19689
Images, Text, Credits: Press Service of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos PAO) / Translation: Orbiter.ch.
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