dimanche 23 mars 2014

Launch of Soyuz-2.1b with spacecraft Glonass-M












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24.03.2014

Soyuz-2.1b launch

March 24 at 2:00 and 54 minutes (MSK) from Launch Complex 43 pad of Plesetsk cosmodrome starting calculations Forces Aerospace Defense with the participation of specialists of rocket-space industry Russia conducted a successful launch of a space rocket Soyuz-2.1b spacecraft Glonass-M.

Glonass-M navigation satellite

A Russian government Soyuz rocket will launch a Glonass-M navigation satellite. The rocket was in the Soyuz 2-1b configuration with a Fregat upper stage.

Targeting of the satellite orbit Glonass-M is planned in 06.26 MSK (Moscow Time).

ROSCOSMOS Press Release: http://www.federalspace.ru/20377/

Images, Text, Credits: Roscosmos press service / ROSCOSMOS / Translation: Orbiter.ch Aerospace.

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