07/03/2014
Launch of Rockot rocket at Plesetsk cosmodrome
On July 3 at 16 hours 43 minutes Moscow time on state testing cosmodrome Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation (Plesetsk cosmodrome) started launch (ILV) Rockot with the upper stage Breeze-KM and three spacecraft (SC) Messenger-M multifunctional system of personal satellite communication and data transmission (MSPSS).
Launch executed by combat crew specialists from the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation and representatives of the space industry.
Launch of three Gonets-M comsats on a Rokot from Plesetsk
In the estimated time block spacecraft Messenger-M (production - JSC Information Satellite Systems them. Academician Reshetnev) displayed on the target orbit.
Booster light class "Roar" and the upper stage Breeze-KM created at the State Research and Production Space Center. Khrunichev.
Rockot rocket description
Multifunction personal satellite communication system and data from the spacecraft in low orbits Messenger-D1M created under the Federal Space Program commissioned by Roscosmos and is able to solve the problem of providing personal communications and data of various types, including coordinate-time satellite data coordination system GLONASS.
Gonets-M communication satellite
Services, built on the basis of the Messenger solve the problem of monitoring the various infrastructures transmit navigation and timing data obtained by the GLONASS system, with moving objects in different dispatching centers and monitoring, as well as personal communications in remote areas.
ROSCOSMOS Press Release: http://www.federalspace.ru/20747/
Images, Video, Text, Credits: Roscosmos press service / ROSCOSMOS / Translation: Orbiter.ch Aerospace.
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